By Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Michael Williams, CNN

(CNN) — Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussions, sidelining a key player in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

The move comes after President Donald Trump announced he was dispatching White House border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis in the wake of Saturday’s fatal shooting of a US citizen. The White House has said Homan is expected to manage Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the city. One official said it was a “mutual decision” to have Bovino depart. Some Border Patrol agents are expected to remain in the city, sources said.

CNN reached out to the Department of Homeland Security, which includes Border Patrol, for comment.

Administration officials were left deeply frustrated this weekend over how Bovino and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handled the fallout over the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, sources said. According to one official, Trump spent several hours Sunday and Monday watching news coverage and was unhappy by how his administration was coming across. CNN previously reported that Noem was in touch with the White House throughout the day Saturday.

Others say that Bovino, who became the face of Trump’s immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, made matters worse by claiming Pretti intended to “massacre” federal agents. He sat for an interview with CNN and held a news conference Sunday, but neither appearance tamped down criticism of the administration’s response and contradictions, officials told CNN.

Senior officials began discussing taking Bovino out of Minnesota on Sunday afternoon, according to one senior official.

Aides were also irked after Noem labeled Pretti a “domestic terrorist” and accused him of brandishing his legally owned firearm, a claim that wasn’t backed up by video evidence.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt distanced the White House from the domestic terrorist label during Monday’s briefing, arguing it was not a position Trump himself has personally taken. She did not say specifically that Bovino was departing Minnesota, but she said Homan would be the “main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis” and that Bovino would “continue to lead” agency operations nationwide.

Making Homan the administration’s point person in Minneapolis is also seen as a slight to Noem, who has been engaged in a power struggle with the border czar for months. After Homan’s new assignment was announced, a White House official sought to make clear that Noem still has Trump’s confidence and trust.

Bovino was nearly three decades into his career with Border Patrol when he was plucked last year from his position as chief patrol agent of the agency’s El Centro sector in Southern California to lead the highly visible mass deployments of federal law enforcement in cities including Los Angeles; Chicago; Charlotte, North Carolina; and New Orleans.

In each of those cities, the aggressive

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN

New York (CNN) — Corporate giants in the Twin Cities stayed silent, publicly, for more than a month as massive federal immigration operations upended daily life and the local economy.

Alex Pretti’s killing Saturday and growing national anger over the Trump administration’s immigration policies led companies to change course.

Target, UnitedHealth, Best Buy, Cargill and dozens of other Minnesota-based companies issued a joint statement Sunday calling for an “immediate de-escalation of tensions” and for “state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions.”

“The recent challenges facing our state have created widespread disruption and tragic loss of life,” said the statement, released by the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce.

Some Minnesota Democrats criticized the companies’ statement for failing to mention immigration, condemn the shooting of Pretti or Renee Good — another US citizen who was killed by a federal agent — or urge the administration to remove immigration officers from the Twin Cities.

“It is far from sufficient. The clear way to de-escalate is for ICE to leave,” Minnesota State Rep. Michael Howard said on Facebook. “But I believe it’s a helpful step, albeit a small one.”

Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino and some of his agents expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow, sources say.

A joint statement from Minnesota companies had been in the works prior to Pretti’s killing Saturday, but discussions accelerated immediately afterward, a person familiar with the letter said.

Target’s incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke on Monday also acknowledged the “incredibly painful” violence in Minneapolis in a video message to employees. He offered resources and support to staff.

Fear of Trump

Minnesota companies had resisted publicly denouncing immigration operations in recent weeks.

Although customers staged protests at Target and other local stores, immigration officers arrested employees, and small businesses organized a citywide general strike, major companies deemed it too risky to speak out.

Top Minnesota CEOs and business leaders held phone calls about how to respond. Instead of going public, they settled on working behind the scenes to warn Trump administration officials and Republican leaders about economic damage from the surge of immigration agents to Minneapolis, say people close to the companies. The people spoke under the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Potential retribution from the Trump administration and backlash from conservative customers and employees supportive of its mass deportation agenda contributed to companies staying quiet, these people said.

Many companies, including Target, have been burned in recent years by taking and later reversing positions on social issues. Businesses are wary of a repeat.

These companies, with operations around the United States and internationally, also monitor local and national sentiment closely. They judged that widespread anger over the crackdown in the Twin Cities had not spread nationally.

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By Michael Williams, Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN

(CNN) — The White House border czar who President Donald Trump is dispatching to Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of two US citizens is a longtime law enforcement official who has pushed for some of the Trump administration’s controversial immigration-related policies.

Trump said Monday he was sending Tom Homan to Minnesota following Saturday’s fatal shooting of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents. The incident has inflamed tensions and drawn bipartisan criticism of the Trump administration’s portrayal — without evidence — of Pretti as someone who sought to commit an act of domestic terrorism and wanted to massacre law enforcement. Federal officials have so far declined to provide to the public critical details substantiating their claim an agent shot Pretti in self-defense.

The move to send Homan to Minnesota was met with some relief by Republican lawmakers and Homeland Security officials as the 64-year-old border czar has decades worth of law enforcement experience, beginning his career as a police officer in New York before becoming a Border Patrol agent in California in 1984. Homan also led Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation efforts during the Obama administration.

As acting director of ICE during Trump’s first term, Homan served as the public face and vocal defender of some of the administration’s most contentious immigration policies, including the separation of children and families who crossed the border.

He said at a public event in September 2017 that his agency would arrest undocumented people who came forward to care for the children, which previous administrations had avoided. He has also virulently opposed “sanctuary city” policies that restrict local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration efforts.

But the president sending Homan to Minnesota also suggests a potential sidelining of the more heavy-handed tactics used by top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and underscores the ongoing internal dispute within the administration over how they’re carrying out the president’s immigration agenda.

While Bovino’s enforcement style has been backed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Homan has generally taken a more stringent approach to immigration enforcement — wanting to focus on public safety and national security threats. That is slightly different from the broad sweeps that have been occurring in cities nationwide during Trump’s second term.

While Trump was campaigning in 2024, Homan said in an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that the president’s massive deportation campaign would involve targeted arrests.

“It’s not gonna be – a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It’s not gonna be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ri