TO restore peace and law & order to the Twin Cities I agree with Gov Tim Walz's opinion as expressed in the video below.
Sec of Homeland Security fascist fotze trunt kkkristi noem needs to resign or be fired or impeached, but she can not be allowed to continue her campaign of terror on the residents of the United States. She is responsible for the domestic terrorism committed by her DHS operatives, the immoral and illegal raids, detentions in inhumane conditions, beatings, deportations, the violations of civil liberties and rights and protections granted by the US Constitution AND the extrajudicial killings ( murders ) of immigrants and American citizens. Not My pres drumpf / trump, NOT MY vp vance, every member of their administration all members of the US Congress who advocated for her policies, who supported her policies, and those who refused to take the available actions to stop her gestapo's crimes against the residents of America are complicit in all them. They will all answer for their actions, hopefully sooner rather than later. From the New York Times and WGN9 News Chicago.....
Trump Holds 2-Hour Meeting With Noem Amid Backlash to Minneapolis Shooting
Reporting from Washington
President Trump met Monday evening in the Oval Office with Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Corey Lewandowski, her top aide, for nearly two hours, as his administration tries to shift its strategy after federal agents killed a second Minneapolis resident over the weekend, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
The meeting came after Ms. Noem requested to see the president, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private meeting.
Mr. Trump did not suggest during the meeting that either Ms. Noem’s or Mr. Lewandowski’s jobs were at risk, the people said. But it was the latest sign the president is concerned about the bipartisan criticism of the administration’s response to the killing of Alex Pretti, who was shot at roughly 10 times by immigration agents on Saturday after he was apparently filming them with his phone camera.
Ms. Noem has been the face of the administration’s immigration crackdown, and she has been among the most vocal in spreading false accusations against Mr. Pretti, including labeling him a “domestic terrorist.”
The Oval Office meeting also included several of Mr. Trump’s top aides, including Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, Karoline Leavitt, his press secretary, and Steven Cheung, his communications director. Stephen Miller, a top aide to Mr. Trump who oversees the administration’s immigration strategy, was not part of the meeting.
The meeting came the same day Mr. Trump announced he was sending Tom Homan, his border czar, to oversee the operation in Minneapolis. The move was seen as a way to elevate an official who is steeped in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s longstanding practice of prioritizing targeted arrests, rather than the kinds of sweeping raids that the Trump administration has carried out in cities across the country.
At the same time, the administration was planning to move Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official whose harsh tactics have drawn sharp criticism, out of the city, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.
Hamed Aleaziz covers the Department of Homeland Security and immigration policy for The Times.
Bovino Set to Leave Minnesota as Trump Shakes Up Crackdown Leadership
Hamed AleazizErnesto LondoñoDavid E. Sanger and Mitch Smith
Ernesto Londoño reported from Minneapolis.
Published Jan. 26, 2026Updated Jan. 28, 2026, 10:53 a.m. ET
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official in charge of President Trump’s on-the-ground immigration enforcement in Minneapolis, is expected to leave the city, according to two U.S. officials.
The decision to move him out of the city came two days after he made the unsubstantiated claim that a man who was shot and killed there by federal agents was planning to “massacre” law enforcement officers. Some of the federal agents in the city are also expected to begin leaving on Tuesday, Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said after a phone call on Monday with President Trump, without providing details.
Mr. Trump and his top aides have faced intense scrutiny over the death of the man, Alex Pretti, including from some of the president’s most ardent supporters. Earlier Monday, Mr. Trump said he was sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota to oversee operations on the ground. Mr. Homan, the president added, would report directly to him.
After two days of blowback over the shooting and his own attacks on the victim, Mr. Trump struck a more cooperative tone on Monday, first by dispatching Mr. Homan to the state and then describing in a social media post a “very good call” with Gov. Tim Walz — whom he had also blamed for the shooting — that had them “on a similar wavelength.” Mr. Trump said that he would have Mr. Homan contact Mr. Walz to discuss coordination, specifically on “Criminals” already in state custody.
Mr. Walz’s office described the phone call as “productive” and said it touched on topics Mr. Trump’s post did not mention: efforts to ensure independent investigations into the killings of Mr. Pretti and Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an agent on Jan. 7, and the possibility of reducing the number of federal agents deployed to the state.
But soon after Mr. Trump posted about the call, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, continued to lay blame for the shooting of Mr. Pretti at the feet of Mr. Walz and other Democrats — even as she sought to distance Mr. Trump from the attacks on Mr. Pretti by some of his top allies, including Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff.
Mr. Trump also met with Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Corey Lewandowski, her top aide, in the Oval Office for more than two hours on Monday evening, according to two people briefed on the meeting. The president did not suggest in the meeting that Ms. Noem and Mr. Lewandowski were at risk of losing their jobs, those people said, but it was another sign of Mr. Trump’s concern about the reaction to the killing of Mr. Pretti.
Here’s what we’re covering:
State investigation: A federal judge didn’t immediately rule on the request by Minnesota investigators to extend a temporary order barring the federal government from destroying evidence in the killing of Mr. Pretti. State officials want the judge to compel federal cooperation with a state investigation into Mr. Pretti’s death, after local law enforcement was initially denied access to the scene and evidence.
Crackdown challenged: Lawyers representing Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul urged a federal judge to temporarily halt the deployment of some 3,000 immigration agents. The judge, who did not provide a timeline for a ruling, pointedly questioned whether the request was overly broad but also pressed lawyers for the Trump administration about the motives for the crackdown. Read more ›
The victim: Administration officials quickly branded Mr. Pretti as a domestic terrorist even as videos of the encounter contradicted their narrative of the shooting. Mr. Pretti’s friends, family and colleagues denounced what they said were “sickening lies” by the Trump administration. They described Mr. Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse, as a happy and generous man who loved biking and walking his dog. Read more ›
Tyler Pager contributed reporting.
Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, criticized the Trump administration’s reaction to killings by federal agents in Minneapolis. “What I think the administration could do better is the tone with which they’re describing this — that immediately when an incident like this happens, they come out guns blazing, that ‘We took out a violent terrorist, hooray!’” he said on his podcast on Monday. “And the problem is, particularly for someone not paying attention, if you’re being told this is a mom of three and there’s no indication, you know, she’s not waving an ISIS flag or doesn’t have a suicide vest around her, escalating the rhetoric doesn’t help and it actually loses credibility.”
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(WGN/NewsNation) — Gregory Bovino has been relieved of his position as Border Patrol commander-at-large and will be returning to his position in El Centro, California, sources told Nexstar’s NewsNation on Monday.
The move comes after two deadly shootings involving federal agents in Minneapolis and follows Border Patrol agents being put back on standby in Minnesota, despite earlier reports that agents under Bovino would be leaving after Monday.
Border czar Tom Homan has been sent to replace Bovino and head up immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
Homan, who will also be at the helm of ongoing fraud investigations in the state, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, will meet with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Tuesday.
Many in Minneapolis are cheering Bovino’s removal and hoping the rest of his agents will leave, too.
“They’ve done nothing but sow terror in the community, and I hope they leave, and I hope I never see Greg Bovino’s face ever again,” Minnesota resident Lauren Asfaw said.
On social media Monday, President Donald Trump said he and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had a “good call” about Homan’s arrival: “The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!”
The pair were on a “similar wavelength” about the move, Trump said, adding, “both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!”
However, the White House did not mention the move at Monday’s daily press briefing.
“Mr. Bovino is a wonderful man, and he’s a great professional,” Leavitt said. “He is going to very much continue to lead Customs and Border Patrol throughout and across the country.
“… We hope Gov. Walz will do the right thing and continue to work with President Trump to keep the American people safe.”
Bovino’s removal from the position comes two days after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday, and weeks after ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis in early January.
In both cases, the Department of Homeland Security said agents feared for their lives and blamed Minnesota’s leadership for inciting protestors.
Meanwhile, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker took to social media after Bovino was reportedly moved out of Minnesota, saying: “One demotion cannot detract from accountability. Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.”
Judge Orders ICE Chief to Appear in Court Over Potential Contempt
In a remarkable display of frustration, the chief federal judge in Minnesota ordered the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear in court on Friday to explain why he should not be held in contempt for violating court orders arising from the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the state.
In a brief ruling issued late Monday, the judge, Patrick J. Schiltz, of Federal District Court in Minnesota, said he recognized that ordering ICE’s acting director, Todd Lyons, to personally defend himself in court was “an extraordinary step.” But Judge Schiltz, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, said it was necessary because “the extent of ICE’s violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary.”
Judge Schiltz wrote that he had been “extremely patient” with the agency even though it had sent thousands of agents to the state as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, but did so without preparing for the legal challenges and lawsuits that “were sure to result.”
He concluded, “The court’s patience is at an end.”
While Judge Schiltz’s irritation with the administration was palpable, he left Mr. Lyons a way out of his court summons. The judge said he would cancel the hearing if ICE quickly released an immigrant whom he said had been wrongly detained by agents.
Judge Schiltz’s decision to summon Mr. Lyons came as the federal courts in Minnesota have been deluged by legal cases filed by immigrants swept up in the administration’s dragnet. Some of the immigrants have sought to avoid being shipped out of the state by federal agents, while others have complained about being sent to places like Texas and forced to find their own way home.
The judge’s order stemmed from the case of Juan Hugo Tobay Robles, an Ecuadorean man who entered the United States illegally nearly 30 years ago and has been in custody after immigration agents detained him on Jan. 6, according to court papers.
On Jan. 14, Judge Schiltz ordered ICE to allow Mr. Tobay Robles to challenge his detention at a hearing within a week or release him from custody altogether. As part of the ruling, the judge determined that ICE was holding Mr. Tobay Robles under an improper reading of federal law — one of hundreds of such cases that have unfolded in courts across the country in recent months.
On Monday night, Judge Schiltz wrote that ICE had failed to obey his instructions, noting that Mr. Tobay Robles had not yet had a hearing but remained in custody.
“This is one of dozens of court orders with which respondents have failed to comply in recent weeks,” the judge wrote without specifying other examples. “The practical consequence of respondents’ failure to comply has almost always been significant hardship to aliens (many of whom have lawfully lived and worked in the United States for years and done absolutely nothing wrong.)”
Judge Schiltz, who once clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, is an unlikely critic of the White House. But his summons of Mr. Lyons was his second clash with the Trump administration in less than a week.
On Friday, he expressed exasperation about an extraordinary request from the Justice Department to have him reverse another judge’s decision and personally issue arrest warrants for the journalist Don Lemon and four other people in connection with a protest at a church service in St. Paul this month.
In a letter to the appeals court that sits over him, Judge Schiltz called the request by department lawyers “frivolous” and “unprecedented,” categorically rejecting their assertion that the warrants for Mr. Lemon and the others were needed on an emergency basis.
Judge Schiltz’s loss of patience with the administration comes at a particularly fraught moment for the Justice Department, which has been called upon to defend the government in other significant cases in the Minnesota federal courts.
One judge in Minneapolis, Kate M. Menendez, held a hearing on Monday to consider whether the administration’s surge of some 3,000 immigration agents to the state had effectively become an unconstitutional occupation. Lawyers for the state and for the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis have asked Judge Menendez to temporarily halt the surge, but she has not yet issued her decision.
In a separate case, a federal judge in St. Paul heard arguments on Monday about whether to extend a preliminary order he issued over the weekend forcing the Department of Homeland Security to preserve evidence arising from the fatal shooting on Saturday of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse.
Alan Feuer covers extremism and political violence for The Times, focusing on the criminal cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and against former President Donald J. Trump.
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 28, 2026, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: Judge Orders ICE Chief to Appear in Court Over Potential Contempt Charge
More on the Unrest in Minneapolis
Judge Blocks Deportation of Child: A federal judge temporarily blocked the deportation of a 5-year-old boy and his father who were arrested north of Minneapolis in an operation that stirred additional outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
Changes on the Ground: President Trump sent his border czar, Tom Homan, to take control of ICE operations in the state, while the administration is planning to move Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official whose tactics have drawn controversy, out of Minneapolis. Trump met with Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, and Corey Lewandowski, her top aide, for nearly two hours as his administration tried to shift its strategy.
Shooting of Alex Pretti: Federal investigators are reviewing body camera footage related to Pretti’s killing, as the Trump administration has appeared to acknowledge that its investigation into the killing of Pretti was limited to a “use of force” review meant to establish whether government employees had violated training standards. And for the second time in three weeks, Minnesota authorities say they have been impeded from investigating how federal agents shot and killed someone, cutting off access to crucial evidence and basic facts.
Agents’ Conduct: Law enforcement experts say federal agents deviated from standard practice before and during the shooting of Pretti, based on videos.
G.O.P. Reaction: A defense lawyer who had been running for governor of Minnesota as a Republican said he had decided to end his campaign because he had become outraged by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Pretti’s killing has exposed fresh cracks in G.O.P. unity, with some Republicans expressing alarm while others stayed silent or backed the Trump administration.
Dropped Charges: Federal prosecutors dropped assault charges against a man accused of ramming his vehicle into federal agents during an operation in Minnesota this month.
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