President Donald Trump said he is sending US border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis amid a growing outcry over his immigration crackdown that was inflamed last weekend when federal agents fatally shot a US citizen.

He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there,” Trump said of Homan on TruthSocial. “Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly t

President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan will go to Minnesota to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's operations in Minneapolis.

"Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota," Trump said in a post on Truth Social, adding that both he and White House border czar Tom Homan would be speaking with Walz "in the near future.

In the wake of another fatal shooting involving immigration agents, Trump administration and Minnesota officials are locked in a heated dispute over what exactly transpired and who’s to blame for the death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.

The fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a federal immigration officer touched off a firestorm and prompted some fellow Republicans to question President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration crackdown,

The shooting of Alex Pretti marked the latest escalation in President Donald Trump’s immigration operation in Minneapolis.

A federal judge is hearing arguments Monday on whether she should at least temporarily halt the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that has led to the fatal shootings of two people by government officers.