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Greg Bovino has been fired as “commanding general” of the US Border Patrol and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, a Homeland Security (DHS) official and two other sources with knowledge of the matter told The Atlantic.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her close aide Corey Lewandowski, who were Bovino's biggest supporters at DHS, are also at risk of losing their jobs, two sources told the US magazine.

The White House said late Monday, however, that she “will continue to lead the Department of Homeland Security with the full confidence and support of the president.”

But the US media says her position is still in jeopardy: According to Politico, White House allies are increasingly blaming one person for the chaos of the crackdown on migrants in Minneapolis, and that's Kristin Noem.

Sources also revealed to CNN that Trump administration officials were deeply frustrated this weekend with the way Bovino and Noem handled the fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. According to an official, Trump spent several hours on Sunday and Monday watching the news and was unhappy with how his administration was being perceived.

Trump signaled a sudden change in position

Bovino's sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reevaluating its most aggressive tactics following the Saturday killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino's command.

Earlier on Monday, Trump had suggested in a series of social media posts a tactical shift in the administration's mass deportation campaign.

The US President first announced on Truth Social that he was sending the 'King of the Frontier', Tom Homan, to Minnesota: He was not involved in that area, but he knows and appreciates a lot of people there. Tom is tough but fair and will report directly to me.”

Trump then said he was “on the same page” with Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, and that he had a “very good” phone conversation with him, with both wanting to work together to improve the state.

This represented a sudden change of position for the US president, who had previously accused Walz of inciting violence.

Bovino had become the spearhead of the fight against migrants

Greg Bovino's sudden firing after he became the public figure of Donald Trump's fierce fight against immigration in Democratic-led cities over the past half year.

Noem and other Trump officials gave Bovino the title of “commander” and sent him with his undercover border agents to Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and then Minneapolis.

Bovino became a MAGA star on social media, traveling the country with his own camera crew and using social media to fire back at criticism from Democratic politicians and others online who disagreed with his methods.

Senior officials in the federal immigration agency (ICE), as well as the Border Patrol, grew increasingly uneasy that Bovino was acting outside his agency's chain of command and seemed to relish his role as a political player, The Atlantic notes.

ICE agents pulled out of Minneapolis

On Sunday night, Trump struck an unusually low-key tone, telling The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) about the death of paramedic Alex Pretti: “We're looking at the situation, reviewing everything, and we're going to make a decision.”

“At some point we will leave. We did, they did a phenomenal job,” Trump told the WSJ, without going into details about when the agents might be withdrawn.

Trump's claims came after ICE officers shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti on Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security characterized the incident as the result of an attack by Pretti, but video footage taken by witnesses and verified by Reuters showed Pretti holding a phone, not a gun, as he tried to help other protesters who had been tackled to the ground by agents.

This new fatal incident comes after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good after approaching her stopped car on January 7th.