"President Trump has reshuffled the leadership of his immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota in the face of wide-spread anger over two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents. Operation commander Gregory Bovino is out, and Trump is sending Border Czar Tom Homan to take over. But it's not clear changes at the top can solve a more basic problem: the immigration agents flooding the Twin Cities are generally less experienced in urban policing and crowd control than other police."
""They saw themselves as very different," she says. "They would tell me that they were trained to hike in the desert. They often told me about arresting 10, 15 people who were very compliant." She says the isolation of the border region influenced the officers' calculus about use of force. She recalls one officer who explained that in the desert, he doesn't have the option to duck into an alley for cover."
"Over the years, CBP has come under pressure to rein in its officers' use of deadly force along the border. Incidents of officers shooting at people for throwing rocks came under special scrutiny, and an external review in 2013. "Too many cases do not appear to meet the test of objective reasonableness with regard to the use of deadly force," the report found."
President Trump replaced the operation commander leading the Minnesota immigration enforcement surge, sending Border Czar Tom Homan to take over after two fatal shootings by federal agents. Large numbers of Customs and Border Protection officers make up much of the roughly 3,000 agents deployed to the Twin Cities. Many CBP officers have primarily desert and border experience, describing duties like hiking in the desert and arresting compliant migrants, which shapes a different calculus about use of force. CBP has faced scrutiny over deadly-force incidents, including a 2013 external review that questioned the objective reasonableness of many cases.
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