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Outrage erupted Wednesday after the two Border Patrol agents believed to have killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were placed on paid leave.

The Department of Homeland Security has not named the two officers or disclosed further information about the shooting death. The move was referred to as "standard protocol after a shooting," according to reports.

Pretti, who was carrying a licensed firearm in his waistband holster and did not brandish the weapon, was disarmed by federal officers before he was shot and killed. ...

A person was in critical condition on Tuesday after a shooting involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona.

The incident happened in southern Pima County at around 7:30 a.m., NBC News reported.

The Pima County Sheriff and Santa Rita Fire District did not release the person's name or if they were a target of ICE action. It's unclear if any federal officers were injured. ...

(Reuters) - U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican drug traffickers fought a gun battle across the Rio Grande river in south Texas, authorities said on Friday, the latest of a spate of cross-border shootings in recent months.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two Border Patrol agents were indicted on Thursday on charges of forcing accused drug smugglers to eat marijuana and flee barefoot and nearly naked into the chilly Arizona desert.

Arizona's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, would have you believe that Arizona is the repeated victim of terrorism at the hands of marauding illegal immigrant gangs.