Immigration agents are privately expressing hesitation about their deployments as they face growing backlash from lawmakers and civilians alike, according to a new report.

A Department of Homeland Security memo that was leaked to independent journalist Ken Klippenstein appears to show the agency calling on agents to volunteer for the surge in Minneapolis. However, agents who spoke with Klippenstein said some are hesitant because of the dangers it entails.

The memo tells agents to keep a low profile, hide any insignia that could tie them to Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and to be mindful of what they post on social media.

"A Border Patrol agent familiar with the discussions said the volunteer push reflects real unease in the ranks about the Good shooting in Minneapolis and the related surge," Klippenstein reported.

He spoke with one agent that DHS has the manpower for its surge already, but "some just don't want to go."

“There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for de-escalation,” a high-level career official at Homeland Security headquarters told Klippenstein. “There is genuine fear that indeed ICE’s heavy-handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers’ lives are in danger rather than the other way around.”

The hesitation comes at a time when tensions are running high in Minneapolis following the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother who was protesting an ICE raid. Good was shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while she was trying to leave the scene. Good's killing sparked protests nationwide.

Law enforcement experts have pointed out that Ross appears to have violated several ICE policies during the shooting. Trump administration officials have defended Ross's actions and said he enjoys "absolute immunity."

Read Klippenstein's entire report by clicking here.

A prominent columnist flagged the latest sign that parts of President Donald Trump's brain may not work anymore during a new podcast interview.

David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, discussed Trump's seemingly erratic behavior over the last couple of weeks on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Monday. For instance, Rothkopf noted the increase in immigration agents on the streets, his threats to invade and take over Greenland, and the opening of an investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over the central bank's headquarters renovation project.

But there was one particular sign of Trump's decline that caught Rothkopf's eye.

"He put out on True Social that he's the acting president of Venezuela, which I thought was cuckoo," Rothkopf said. "But you get an idea of how the Trump administration is currently working because [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio folded up a little note, handed it to Trump, Trump opened up the note and he's like, 'Go back to the guy from Chevron' ... and Trump just read it out loud straight because those parts of his brain just aren't working anymore."

Questions about Trump's health have swirled throughout his second administration. The president's bruised hands and swollen ankles are well documented, and he has been caught nodding off in the Oval Office during press events.

Trump has lashed out at publications like The New York Times for reporting on his health.

A former federal prosecutor chided President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Monday over its latest scandal.

On Monday, the Department of Justice fired Robert McBride, the second-highest-ranking prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, after he refused to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey. McBride had begun to take on a more prominent role in the office after a federal judge said the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was illegal.

McBride was fired at a time when the Trump administration is ramping up pressure against the president's political enemies. Most recently, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro launched an investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's handling of the $2.5 billion headquarters renovation, an investigation that some experts have said is specious at best.

Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., discussed McBride's firing in a new episode of "Justice Matters" on Monday.

"Donald Trump and Pam Bondi's Department of Justice is in a lawless freeall," Kirschner said. "Even when they bring people in to act as henchmen, people they perceive as flunkies, even those people are like, 'I'm not reindicting that vindictive case against James Comey.'"

He added that Bondi and the rest of the DOJ appear to be "operating without an ethical net."

"Let's hope that the day comes soon when they are no longer in any kind of leadership positions at the Department of Justice," he said.