Donald Trump is pulling his top Border Patrol official in Minneapolis out of the city, as scrutiny over the administration's actions in the city turns into outrage.
Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino and some of his agents will leave the city today.
Instead, White House border tsar Tom Homan will be sent to manage Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the city.
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The Atlantic is reporting Bovino is being removed from his wide-ranging role and return to his previous position in California.
He will retire soon, the news magazine said.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
ICE's actions in Minnesota's largest city have been deeply unpopular.
A New York Times/Siena poll found just 26 per cent of voters thought ICE's tactics were "just right" and 61 per cent said they had "gone too far".
On Saturday, ICE was responsible for the shooting death of a second Minneapolis local, an intensive care nurse named Alex Pretti.
Bovino claimed that Pretti intended to "massacre" federal agents.
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But multiple video angles of the shooting showed Pretti did not have his hands on his holstered gun at any point during the confrontation.
The gun had been taken away from him before the first of the 10 shots were fired.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described Pretti's actions as an "act of domestic terrorism".
"I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign," she said of Pretti in the hours after his death.
"This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers."
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More than 100 members of Congress, all Democrats, are pushing to impeach Noem.
ICE's presence in Minneapolis has been particularly controversial.
The city is on the other side of the country from the Mexican border, and has a lower proportion of overseas-born residents than the country as a whole.
Already deeply unpopular among Democrats and independents, ICE's actions in Minneapolis are now alienating Republicans.
Republican candidate for governor Chris Madel announced he would not only drop out of the race, but leave the party altogether.
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"I cannot support the national Republicans' stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so," he said.
Meanwhile, state officials have asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order for the administration to reduce its ICE activities in the city.
In another case, state and local law enforcement are seeking an order preventing the federal government from destroying evidence in the Pretti investigation.
The administration is not cooperating with a local investigation, and the federal investigation is being handled by ICE itself.
However, ICE will be doing immigration enforcement at the Super Bowl, a top Trump aide has announced.
"There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in the country illegally, not the Super Bowl, not anywhere else," the Department of Homeland Security's Corey Lewandowski said.
The Super Bowl will be held in Santa Clara in California this year.
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