Border Patrol official defends federal actions amid immigration raids in Minnesota

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Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino defended the actions and grooming of national agents arsenic migration raids intensified successful Minnesota connected Sunday, days aft the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good successful the state's capital.

At 1 ICE raid astatine a state presumption successful St. Paul connected Sunday, national agents dragged a antheral from his car past tackled a bystander who was filming.

Protests person taken spot amid the raids, including 1 connected Sunday extracurricular an ICE installation successful St. Paul, Minnesota, wherever CBS News saw national agents deploy capsicum balls and teardrop state against protesters – led by Bovino.

Bovino claimed successful an interrogation with CBS News that agencies wrong the Department of Homeland Security are moving to de-escalate situations, saying, "every time we de-escalate."

CBS News witnessed agents confronting the protesters extracurricular of the facility, telling demonstrators to determination backmost and antagonizing them. CBS News pointed retired to Bovino that it didn't look similar de-escalation.

"The agitators and the rioters present successful Minneapolis request to recognize that our operations volition proceed unabated contempt the unit they perpetrate against instrumentality enforcement," helium responded.

Bovino blamed section officials for escalating tensions betwixt protesters and instrumentality enforcement.

"Some of those constabulary chiefs, and particularly immoderate of those elected representatives, let's speech astir Mayor Frey oregon Gov. Walz, they travel successful the footsteps of the Gov. Pritzkers and the Gavin Newsoms. That is not de-escalation," Bovino said. "That is escalation, and if they don't quit, they volition person ... they volition person much humor connected their hands."

Frey, Minneapolis' mayor, had a powerfully worded connection for national migration officials aft Good was killed, saying astatine a quality conference: "Get the f*** retired of Minneapolis." He besides told CBS News Minnesota connected Sunday, "you would anticipation that, particularly pursuing immoderate signifier of atrocious and horrific lawsuit similar that, that they would instrumentality a measurement back, instrumentality a pause, and then, adjacent better, leave. We person not seen that."

Bovino defends agents' knowledge, training

Hundreds much national agents are present being sent to Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced connected Sunday, arsenic the section carries retired what officials are calling the "largest migration cognition ever."

The Minneapolis country has one of the largest concentrations of DHS agents successful immoderate U.S. city, with implicit 2,400 national agents – much than treble the fig of section constabulary officers.

Federal instrumentality enforcement is conducting at-large sweeps of neighborhoods successful Minnesota, an attack that existent and erstwhile ICE agents said could enactment citizens and instrumentality enforcement astatine risk. Bovino disputes those claims.

"We've been astatine this 8 months, truthful we instrumentality that 8 months of organization cognition on with immoderate of the astir highly trained national instrumentality enforcement professionals successful presumption of migration and wide instrumentality enforcement anyplace successful the United States," helium said. "I can't deliberation of a amended instrumentality enforcement radical that I would alternatively beryllium with than... than what we person connected the crushed here."

Jonathan Ross is "in a harmless location," Bovino says

Bovino told CBS News a just probe into the fatal shooting of Good is taking place.

The FBI is investigating aft the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension withdrew from the lawsuit past week, citing national officials restricting its entree to evidence.

Trump medication officials person claimed that Good intended to ram ICE cause Jonathan Ross with her car earlier helium changeable and killed her past Wednesday.

Appearing connected CNN, Noem insisted the deadly usage of unit was appropriate, saying, "He had to instrumentality speedy enactment based connected his grooming to support himself and his colleagues astir him."

Others, however, person pointed retired that Ross was inactive holding his camera and filming passim the shooting.

"If helium was deed and tally implicit by a car, however the hellhole is helium inactive holding connected to his compartment telephone afterwards?" Frey said. "I mean, I've dropped my compartment telephone galore times by hardly getting brushed, yet helium tin get deed by a car, and he's inactive hanging on, hanging connected to it?"

Bovino said has not personally spoken to Ross, but that Ross "has had respective threats against his life" and is "in a harmless location."

"He's recovering from those injuries and we're thankful that he's recovering," Bovino said.

When pressed astir wherefore agents were connected the crushed successful the vicinity wherever Good died and astir however the concern determination escalated, Bovino again placed blasted connected section and authorities officials.

"That's again, backmost to Mayor Frey and backmost to Gov. Walz – who turned the vigor up and caused these weaker-minded constituents to bash things they mightiness not different do," Bovino said. "We don't similar that and it should ne'er person taken place. But due to the fact that Walz, due to the fact that Walz and Frey, pursuing the footsteps of those different governors, this happens."