Two federal agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on leave, law enforcement officials tell the BBC
Pretti, a US citizen, was shot and killed on Saturday in an incident which has sparked ongoing protests
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump warns Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is "playing with fire" after Frey said "Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration laws"
Responding to Trump's post on social media, Frey says "The job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce fed immigration laws"
Trump's comments come after Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar was attacked at an event she was hosting on Tuesday, when an audience member used a syringe to spray an unknown liquid at her
Omar, a Democrat who has frequently clashed with the Trump administration over its immigration policies, was not hurt and continued to speak
Edited by Lisa Lambert and Oliver O'Connell, with Ana Faguy in Minnesota
Representative Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, says he has just visited 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, who are being held in a detention centre in Dilley, Texas.
ICE officers detained the father and son in an immigration operation in Minneapolis last week. The Department of Homeland Security says his dad Conejo Arias is an undocumented immigrant.
"Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center," Castro wrote on social media, alongside a photo of the pre-schooler asleep in his father's arms.
"I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him," Castro said.
Protesters have clashed with federal agents and state troopers outside a family migrant detention centre in south-central Texas, according to video from US media.
Community organisers, unions, and faith leaders from across Texas marched to the facility after holding a vigil nearby "to amplify the voices and protests of children and families held in detention against their will," the organisers said in a press release.
"We gather because our conscience demands it. From inside the detention center, children and parents are chanting 'Libertad!' — Freedom Now," the organisers said.
The detention facility is currently holding a 5-year-old boy and his father who were detained and taken from Minneapolis last week by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Critics of ICE accused officers of kidnapping the child and using him as bait to lure out his father. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE did not target the child, but was conducting an operation against his father, an "illegal alien" who "abandoned" his son when approached.
Outside the Texas facility, a clip from CNN shows officers holding a line against protesters, and one officer can be seen throwing something into the crowd, after which a thump is heard. A smoke device also appears to go off into the crowd as protesters continue yelling, blowing whistles, and honking.
Texas Congressman Chip Roy, a Republican, is hitting back at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who recently released a list of action points Democrats want before they will approve a spending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
"I have my own list if DHS is opened back up. Beginning with no sanctuary city funding…….," Roy wrote on X.
For context: The term "sanctuary city" has been popular in the US for more than a decade to describe places that limit their assistance to federal immigration authorities. It is not a legal term, and cities have taken a variety of approaches to becoming "sanctuaries", such as setting policies in laws or simply changing local policing practices.
Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has just been speaking to reporters in the US Capitol. He says Democrats are united in their demands for reform of federal immigration enforcement.
Here are the three main changes Democrats want:
Schumer says if Republicans refuse to support these proposals, "they are choosing chaos over order."
American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen has released a song he says he wrote over the weekend in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
He posted it on social media earlier today.
"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis," he writes, adding that he dedicates the song to the people of Minneapolis as well as Good and Pretti.
The song, written in Springsteen's signature folk style, takes direct aim at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House adviser Steven Miller, and what he calls their "dirty lies". He also directly names the two deceased.
He calls ICE "King Trump's private army from the DHS", condemns deportations and praises those protesting.
"We'll take our stand for this land," he sings, continuing, "We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis."
The most powerful Democrat in the US Senate is ratcheting up pressure to oust both the Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, and one of Donald Trump's closest advisers, Stephen Miller, the lead White House official on the president's massive immigration crackdown.
In a series of lunchtime posts on-line, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also pressed Trump to pull ICE agents out of Minnesota.
"It's outrageous that Kristi Noem still has a job in the administration after federal officers murdered two American citizens in just two weeks," Schumer said, referring to the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. "Noem is incompetent and she must go. And her boss Stephen Miller must be removed as well."
Schumer warned a spending package to prevent another federal shutdown would be at risk without changes to immigration enforcement operations.
"Let me be clear: Until ICE is properly reined in and overhauled, the DHS funding bill won’t have the votes to pass the Senate," he said.
On Minnesota, Schumer said that, while Trump has called for de-escalation,he has not followed up with meaningful action.
"If Trump was serious, he would remove all of ICE from Minnesota now," he said.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis says he is "thrilled" after President Trump labelled him a "loser" for his stance on immigration operations in Minnesota.
"They're discrediting what I consider to be a very well organised operation," he told reporters today at the US Capitol. "They're discrediting even these officers, they're gonna make their job more difficult and more dangerous with this incompetence that I'm seeing out of (Homeland Security Secretary Kristi) Noem and out of (WH adviser) Stephen Miller."
His comments have drawn the ire of Trump, and one reporter asked Tillis about the president calling him a "loser".
"I am thrilled about that," he said. "That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security secretary and senior adviser to the president."
"They’re terrible Senators," Trump said of Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis in the ABC News interview on Tuesday night in which he called them losers.
Murkowski of Alaska and Tillis of North Carolina were the first two Republicans in Congress to call on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of the fatal shootings.
Brandon Drenon
Reporting from Washington
Senators return to Capitol Hill this week looking to resolve disagreements over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, as they work to avoid a partial government shutdown.
A funding package has already passed the House of Representatives and now needs to be passed by Friday to avoid funds being cut off from many critical agencies.
Only a few Democrats approved the package in the House, with most protesting the inclusion of money for DHS. Once Alex Pretti was shot and killed by DHS agents in Minnesota this weekend, almost all Democrats in the Senate said they would refuse to vote for the legislation.
The most powerful Democrat in the Senate, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, wrote on X: "The DHS bill is woefully inadequate to rein in the abuses of ICE. I will vote no."
"Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included," he continued in a post shared on Saturday.
Backlash from the Minneapolis shooting has also grown to include Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.
Now Senators are openly discussing passing a funding bill that would not include DHS, but would have money for the other agencies.
Congress, though, is up against two challenges doing that: the weather and the clock. The Senate already had to delay votes earlier this week due to a major snowstorm in Washington and there is a chance the capital will be hit by another storm in coming days. Meanwhile, a reworked bill would have to go back to the House for approval and that chamber is set to return after Friday.
Democrats in the US House of Representatives say they are planning to start impeachment processes against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, even without Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress.
The top Democrat on the House's Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, says its Republican chairman, Jim Jordan, should start the process.
If Jordan refuses to do so, then Raskin said he will work with the lead Democrats on the Homeland Security and Oversight committees "to immediately launch a complete oversight and impeachment inquiry into all potential constitutional crimes committed by Secretary Noem".
The calls for Noem's impeachment have been supported by other senior Democrats including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Some Republicans are calling for Noem's resignation, as well.
Impeachment moves against Noem began before Alex Pretti's killing last weekend by people working in her department. More than a week earlier, a group of Democrats introduced a resolution to remove her, which gained momentum once Noem accused Pretti of "domestic terrorism."
To successfully impeach her in the House, Democrats would need three Republicans to join them. Then the matter would go to the Senate, where it would face the steeper challenge of needing two-thirds of the votes.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is now in Minneapolis, where she says several protesters have been arrested.
"Federal agents have arrested 16 Minnesota rioters for allegedly assaulting federal law enforcement – people who have been resisting and impeding our federal law enforcement agents," she wrote on X a few minutes ago.
She said more arrests can be expected.
"I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: NOTHING will stop President Trump and this Department of Justice from enforcing the law," she added.
She followed with posts providing the names and photos of those detained.
Bondi oversees the Department of Justice, which does not direct the immigration operations in Minnesota, but is responsible for federal prosecutions. The DOJ for example has issued subpoenas to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to provide testimony to grand juries, for example.
The DOJ also houses the Federal Bureau of Investigations. As tensions rise in Minnesota, FBI Director Kash Patel has said the agency "is chasing down every last person responsible for attacking, impeding, or threatening federal law enforcement doing their jobs".
The FBI is now leading the investigation into the attack Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minneapolis police spokesperson told local outlet The Minnesota Star Tribune.
While Omar, a Democrat who represents Minneapolis and some of its suburbs in Congress, was speaking at a town hall event on Tuesday, a man used a syringe to spray an unidentified liquid on her shirt.
The man has been charged with third degree assault. Omar was not injured.
Ana Faguy
Reporting from Minneapolis
Mary Anne Quiroz can't stop thinking about an incident that happened in November, before the large ICE presence came to her city, when there were only limited reports of what immigration officials were doing.
She ran to her neighbours' aid as ICE attempted to detain people near a local grocery store.
Quiroz said when she got to the scene she asked officers how she could help and why they were detaining her neighbour.
She and others also told them that if they "really are here wanting to take away criminals, take down criminals, then show us the warrant".
"We'll help you catch them," she said they told the officers. "We will help you do your job, but the issue is, there is a process and a procedure by law that you're not following."
She believes that offer, as well as the large presence of neighbours on the scene, helped dissuade them from following through that day. Now, she is holding her breath as she wonders what actions immigration agents will take next, and what it will mean for Minneapolis.
"We are all on survival mode right now, regardless of race, class, gender, religious affiliation," she told me. " All of our lives are at stake right now."
US Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave.
The details of the leave and identities of the agents are still unclear, but it comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seek to cool tensions in the city of Minneapolis.
Here’s a recap of what else has happened over the last day:
Border Patrol agents involved in the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave.
But what exactly does that mean?
A former federal agent told the BBC's US partner CBS News that administrative leave is typically required in cases where deadly force has been used.
Agents are typically placed on leave for at least three days – but sometimes that can go longer, said Scott Sweetow, a former special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, commonly called ATF, in St. Paul.
"That's both to protect the agency, to protect the person and frankly to protect the public from someone who may really be rattled when they're out there because they've had to use deadly force and you don't want them back out there engaging in a situation where they could use deadly force again," Sweetow said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who overseas ICE and Border Patrol, has previously said this standard procedure was followed after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good earlier this month
A CBS anchor asked Noem whether the officer was placed on the normal three-day administrative leave following the shooting.
“We are following the exact same investigative and review process that we always have under ICE and under the Department of Homeland Security and within the administration,” Noem said.
“The exact same policy that the Biden administration used, the exact same review, so we haven’t changed any of that,” she added.
A Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson has confirmed that "two officers involved are on administrative leave" and that this is "standard protocol".
It is unclear exactly when the personnel involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti were placed on leave.
Typically, as part of standard protocol, federal law enforcement agents who have been involved in a shooting are placed on administrative leave during the course of the investigation into the circumstances of the incident.
The revelation that they were placed on leave, as confirmed to CBS, the BBC's US partner, directly contradicts what the former Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino said on Saturday after the shooting.
He told reporters that the Customs and Border Patrol officers were still on the job but were working in a different city for their safety.
A federal law enforcement official confirms to CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that Border Patrol agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave.
This is part of the standard protocol after a shooting.
Stick with us as we bring you the latest.
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Arizona officials speak out after US Border Patrol shooting
While much of the public focus on Trump's immigration actions have been centred on the northern US state of Minnesota in recent weeks, yesterday Border Patrol were involved in a shootingnear the southern border with Mexico.
Authorities in the state of Arizona say there was a shooting on Tuesday involving Border Patrol agents in the community of Arivaca, about 10 miles (16km) from the US-Mexico border.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a news briefing that agents spotted a person suspected of involvement in human trafficking and when they tried to stop his car, he fled on foot.
Nanos says the suspect opened fire on Border Patrol, agents returned fire, and the suspect was shot.
The suspect is in the hospital in a serious but stable condition, and the agent was not injured, Nanos said.
Nanos said the investigation, in coordination with the FBI and other federal partners, is ongoing. This incident was "pretty clear-cut" and coordinating with federal authorities is something "we do all the time", he added.
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Anger and unease in Italy over planned ICE role at Winter Olympics
Residents in Rome say there is no need for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to be sent to the Winter Olympics in Italy.
Several US departments have confirmed ICE will play a role at the games, which begin on 6 February.
"We don't want this world. They can keep them," Rome resident Michela says.
Another Rome resident, Giuseppe, says he does not think an extra police force is necessary and that Italian forces are capable of protecting American athletes.
"I was surprised what is happening in the United States of America, in a country that is considered the homeland of democracy," adds Marco.
It is common for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law enforcement agencies to provide security support at major international events.
DHS stressed that "all security operations at the Olympics are directed and managed exclusively by Italian authorities".
Two US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents fired their weapons during the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti on Saturday, according to a government report sent to Congress and obtained by multiple news outlets, including the BBC's US partner CBS News.
The report, which CBP says was based on a "preliminary review" by its Office of Professional Responsibility, comes after conflicting statements from local officials and the Trump administration about the deadly incident.
The document reportedly says agents were conducting an operation when they encountered two women blowing whistles and ordered them to move out of the way. One of the women reportedly ran towards Pretti, prompting officers to attempt "to move the woman and Pretti out of the roadway".
"The woman and Pretti did not move," according to the document, which says agents then sprayed a chemical irritant towards Pretti and the woman, and attempted to take Pretti into custody.
"Pretti resisted CBP personnel's efforts and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, a (Border Patrol agent) yelled, 'He's got a gun!' multiple times," the report says.
"Approximately five seconds later," two agents withdrew their guns and fired at Pretti.
The report says that after the shooting, an agent informed the others he had possession of Pretti's firearm.
The new information provided by CBP makes no mention of Pretti "brandishing" a gun during the encounter – a claim previously made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
President Donald Trump and musician Nicki Minaj hold hands onstage
As we mentioned earlier, we've been listening in to a Treasury event where Trump has been speaking.
The event was focused on a policy related to savings accounts for children. At one point, the rapper Nicki Minaj was brought on stage and she told the audience she was Trump's biggest supporter.
The president didn't mention immigration, ICE, or the situation in Minnesota, and has now concluded his remarks.
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