Stephen Miller, the fascist architect of Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, just did something remarkable: he admitted federal agents may have screwed up when they killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday.

“We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol,” Miller said in a statement. This is a stunning reversal from the same guy who, just days ago, called Pretti “an assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents.”

WHAT’S GOING ON: The Trump administration is in full damage-control mode after Border Patrol agents shot Pretti ten times in broad daylight while he was filming them with his phone.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is now throwing Miller under the bus, telling sources she did “everything” at “the direction of the president and Stephen.” Miller, meanwhile, is pointing fingers at Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who was conveniently removed from Minneapolis on Tuesday. And Republican senators are calling on all of them to resign.

THE DETAILS: A new Border Patrol report confirms two agents fired those ten shots but notably doesn’t mention Pretti actually drawing his weapon. Witness videos show Pretti holding his phone—not a gun—as agents tackled him.

Minneapolis police confirmed Pretti had no serious criminal history and was a lawful gun owner with a valid permit—although that didn’t stop them from reportedly breaking his rib a week before he was killed. One agent reportedly took Pretti’s weapon from his waistband and walked away with it moments before he was killed.

Trump himself has distanced himself from the initial “assassin” rhetoric, telling reporters he “flat out disagreed” with Miller’s characterization.

BUT BUT BUT: The White House is still trying to have it both ways. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insists “Stephen Miller is one of President Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides. The president loves Stephen.”

Meanwhile, sources inside the administration are clearly briefing reporters that Bovino—not Miller—”should be blamed.” Someone’s getting sacrificed here, and the scramble to avoid accountability is almost comical.

Also, they haven’t even suspended Pretti’s killers. They simply reassigned them to a new city.

WHY IT MATTERS: A U.S. citizen is dead. Federal agents killed him in the street. And the administration’s story has completely fallen apart in less than a week—from “domestic terrorist planning a massacre” to “maybe they weren’t following protocol.”

Pretti was the second person killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis this month alone. The first was Renee Good, shot by an ICE officer on January 7, just over a mile away.

BOTTOM LINE: When the people running the immigration crackdown can’t keep their story straight for 72 hours, it tells you everything about how this operation is actually being conducted. Miller’s walkback isn’t accountability—it’s an attempt to limit political damage while a grieving family buries a nurse who went to a protest with his phone.

A Trump supporter rushed Rep. Ilhan Omar at a Minneapolis town hall and sprayed her with an unknown amber liquid from a syringe—on camera—and Trump’s response was to accuse her of staging it. “She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her,” he told ABC News, dismissing the attack on a congresswoman he’d just spent days targeting by name at rallies and threatening with federal investigations. Read the full story/watch the chilling video.

Trump said “you can’t have guns” while defending ICE’s killing of Alex Pretti—who was holding a phone, not a weapon—and his gun-worshipping base completely lost it. The NRA issued a vague statement defending the Second Amendment without naming Trump, while Gun Owners of America called him out directly, proving these “constitutional warriors” only care about rights when it’s politically convenient. Read the full story.

Wael Tarabishi, a 30-year-old man with a rare genetic disease who couldn’t survive without his father’s care, died after ICE detained his dad during a routine check-in three months earlier. Maher Tarabishi, 62, had lived in the U.S. since 1994, paid taxes, attended every immigration appointment, and had no criminal record, but ICE locked him up 200 miles away based on unproven allegations while his son—who doctors said wouldn’t live past 10 but survived three decades thanks to his father’s “exhaustive knowledge” of his condition—succumbed to sepsis and pneumonia alone. Read the full story.

A week before Border Patrol officers shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, ICE agents had already tackled the 37-year-old ICU nurse to the ground and broke his rib—after he stopped his car to shout and blow a whistle at agents he saw chasing what he described as a family on foot. The feds were tracking Pretti and other anti-ICE protesters through a surveillance program that documented “all images, license plates, identifications” of “agitators”—while FBI Director Kash Patel now claims encrypted Signal chats used by activists to monitor immigration enforcement “illegally entrap” law enforcement. Read the full story.

ICE quietly published a request asking ad tech companies to sell them the same commercial surveillance data that tracks your location, searches, and behavior—you know, the stuff that shows you diaper ads when you’re pregnant, except now they want to use it to deport people. The same week, CNN reported that federal agents in Minneapolis received orders to collect identifying information on protesters (license plates, hotels, anything they can get), while a masked ICE agent in Portland warned a woman filming their activities that her info would go into a “nice little database” labeling her a domestic terrorist. Read the full story.

Yesterday we asked, should ICE leaders be prosecuted for war crimes? 94% of you said YES.

Jan voted yes and said, “They are angry men wanting to hurt anybody.”

Leilani also voted yes: “They are breaking the law. They are refusing Constitutional rights that every citizen has. Just because the Supreme Court has forgotten that what the constitution says does not give privilege to everyone.”

Dale said: “I don’t know about war crimes, but they should be arrested and prosecuted for crimes against the people in our country. We know of murder, breaking and entering, and terrorizing.”

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