US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month.
The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former US presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump's Republican Party.
Trump said that Tom Homan, his point man for border security, "will report directly to me."
Homan's dispatch appeared to be an acknowledgement that the administration has run into political damage, with polls showing a majority of
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