TACO Trump getting scared.
"Lauren Fedor in Washington
Published 7 HOURS AGO
Updated 22:05346
Donald Trump has signalled a shift in his administration’s immigration crackdown as the US president seeks to quell the growing furore over the killing of a man this weekend by federal agents in Minnesota.
The president on Monday said he was deploying border tsar Tom Homan to Minnesota, in a move that was widely seen as a rebuke of homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, who has overseen Trump’s aggressive campaign to detain and deport immigrants.
Trump also dialled down his rhetoric about Democratic leaders in Minnesota, saying in a social media post that he had spoken to the state’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, in a “very good call”.
“We, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump wrote. The president has previously described Walz as “grossly incompetent” and a “stupid, low-IQ governor”.
The apparent pivot came amid a spiralling crisis over the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, who was shot by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday.
The shooting has prompted outrage from both sides of the political aisle and laid bare divisions within the White House and the wider Republican Party between immigration hardliners and those calling for a more measured approach to deportations.
The incident came less than three weeks after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Recent opinion polls suggest the public approval rating for the president’s immigration enforcement tactics is at an all-time low, as the race towards this November’s midterm elections accelerates. The shootings have also prompted sweeping protests across US cities, with many local and state leaders asking the president to remove immigration agents."
FT.com