US President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, met with the Minneapolis mayor and the Minnesota governor on Tuesday in a show of detente, as the White House sought to ease unrest gripping the city after two US citizens were shot dead by federal agents.
Homan was put in charge of the Minneapolis immigration enforcement surge in place of US Border Patrol "commander at large" Gregory Bovino, who sources said was being demoted and reassigned after having overseen most of Trump's crackdowns in Democratic-led cities.
The move was part of a broader reset by the Republican president -- who faces mounting political pressure -- to soften his administration's aggressive deportation tactics.
Some advisers have expressed concern that national outrage over Saturday's killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, and the administration's immediate defense of the agents who shot him, could derail Trump's broader immigrat
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