US President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that a “softer touch” may be needed on immigration, as his administration said 700 federal officers would be pulled from Minnesota but that mass deportations would not stop. But you still have to be tough,” Trump said in an interview with NBC’s “Nightly News” when asked what he had learned from Minneapolis. Before the launch of the high-profile crackdown in Minnesota, there were only 150 federal immigration officers in the state, he said. Two weeks later, immigration officers beat and shot dead intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, also 37, as he lay pinned to the ground. The killings drew international attention and condemnation over the government’s false accounts of what happened, intensifying public concern about the conduct of federal immigration operations.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 05, 2026 12:15 UTC