Just over a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, it appears the White House has finally discovered a level of public anger that can’t be waved away or powered through by flooding the zone with red meat for his political base.
Days after Border Patrol agents fired as many as ten bullets into 37-year-old Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti in what was the second killing of an American in Minnesota by federal law enforcement since the start of this year, Trump announced on Truth Social that he was sending his “Border Czar,” Tom Homan, to the city so he could take charge of the sprawling immigration enforcement effort that has terrorized the city’s communities of color. The push has also sparked fierce resistance from residents and left Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey decrying it as a hostile “invasion” or “occupation” of the North Star State’s largest city.
