Trump sends border tsar to Minnesota after second fatal ICE shooting
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday he is sending a top official to Minnesota as outrage grew over his administration’s militarised immigration raids and the shooting dead of a second protester in Minneapolis. Trump said that Tom Homan, his point man for border security, would arrive in the state later and “will report directly…
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday he is sending a top official to Minnesota as outrage grew over his administration’s militarised immigration raids and the shooting dead of a second protester in Minneapolis.
Trump said that Tom Homan, his point man for border security, would arrive in the state later and “will report directly to me”.
The high-profile assignment suggested that the 79-year-old Republican president is seeking to regain control over a rapidly deteriorating political and security situation.
Minneapolis has become ground zero in the clash between Trump and growing numbers of Americans over his nationwide immigration crackdown.
A federal judge in Minneapolis was to consider on Monday whether the deployment of federal officers – many of them masked, heavily armed and unidentified – violates the state of Minnesota’s sovereignty.
