“Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said on Thursday that he’s preparing for a potential immigration crackdown if it were to come to his state,” NOTUS reports.

“There’s been no indication that President Donald Trump is looking to target Pennsylvania with ramped-up immigration enforcement. But the Democratic governor said that given how many other states have been targets in the Trump administration’s deportation campaign, he’s not leaving anything to chance.”

“Sen. Susan Collins said Thursday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told her large-scale ICE operations in Maine have ended and there are currently no planned operations for the future,” NOTUS reports.

“New affidavits filed in court detail how witnesses were arrested immediately after the shooting of Alex Pretti,” CBS News reports.

“One of those witnesses, who asked to be called Javier for safety reasons, said he was among dozens of what he overheard agents referring to as ‘USCs’ — United States citizens in custody.”

Newly-surfaced video shows recently demoted border chief Greg Bovino rallying the troops in Minneapolis by declaring: “Everybody fucking gets it… this is our fucking city!”

The Atlantic: “Officials overseeing Trump’s mass-deportation campaign are fighting one another for power.”

“The fatal shooting this weekend of a second American citizen by federal immigration agents in Minnesota has forced corporate leaders to do something they’ve rarely done since President Donald Trump returned to office last year: publicly disagree with his policies,” CNBC reports.

“For months, executives have kept quiet as the Trump administration expanded its sprawling immigration crackdown… It wasn’t until the Jan. 24 killing of intensive care unit nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents that more CEOs started to break their year of near silence on the president’s actions. The following day, dozens of executives from Minnesota-based corporations co-signed a letter calling for an ‘immediate de-escalation’ in the state.”

“Tom Homan, the White House border czar who was dispatched to reset the Trump administration’s mission in the city, said the federal approach here hadn’t been perfect as he announced he was working on a plan to begin drawing down the law-enforcement presence,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Homan: “I do not want to hear that everything that’s been done here is perfect.”

But he added: “The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation.”

A new polling memo from the Chuck Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC finds that 50% of voters supported (vs. only 37% opposed) reforms to ICE even if it meant a partial shutdown of the government.

More than half — 54% — said they’d blame Trump and the GOP if there was a shutdown with no ICE reforms.

And this survey was undertaken last week, before the killing of Alex Pretti.

Playbook: “The White House also does a lot of polling, and will be well aware of these shifts in public sentiment. If a deal is done today, this will be why.”

“For years, Republicans have had some reliable terra firma: If they were talking about immigration and border security, they were winning,” Politico reports.

“Even amid the backlash from Donald Trump’s 2016 pledge to ban all Muslim immigrants to his 2024 amplification of baseless claims that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets—immigration remained a durable, winning issue for the GOP.”

“Now the ground is shifting under them.”

The chief federal judge in Minnesota excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying it had violated nearly 100 court orders stemming from its aggressive crackdown in the state and had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence,” the New York Times reports.

ICE officers in Minnesota were directed to avoid engaging with “agitators” as they carry out President Trump’s immigration crackdown, Reuters reports.

The new guidance, offering the most detailed look so far at how operations would change after two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens protesting in Minneapolis, also orders U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers only to target immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions.

“When Republicans muscled President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill through Congress last year, they gave a windfall to the Department of Homeland Security — including for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with effectively no strings attached,” the New York Times reports.

“Republicans allocated a total of $190 billion over four years, including $75 billion for ICE alone, making it the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency. At the time, Democrats warned that the money would supercharge the department without any checks on its operations. But Republicans used a special maneuver to shield the measure from a filibuster and get it to Mr. Trump’s desk on a simple majority vote, leaving Democrats powerless to block it.”

“The two federal agents who opened fire on a Veterans Affairs nurse in Minneapolis have been placed on leave, as more voices, including some in the Republican Party, broke with the White House over its handling of the fatal shooting,” the New York Times reports.

“This is moral injury that we’re living through. They still have an active federal investigation into the wife of Renee Good. And that is demented shit right there.”

— Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), in an interview with The Bulwark.

CNN: “The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.”

“Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.”

A new polling memo urges Senate Democrats to “play hardball” ahead of a looming partial government shutdown and use their “leverage to reform ICE,” Politico reports.

The polling found that 58% of likely midterm voters want ICE to be reined in. More voters prefer reforming ICE than the number who prefer eliminating the agency entirely by 30% to 19%.

The Atlantic: “The reactions from across the GOP sent an unmistakable message in their volume, if not in their rhetoric, to Donald Trump: Enough. The defining characteristics of the Republican-controlled Congress during the president’s second term have been silence and acquiescence.”

“That so many in his party felt compelled to speak up after Pretti’s killing was a sign that Republicans had finally lost patience with federal agents occupying a major American city—a deportation operation that has soured the public on one of Trump’s signature policies and sunk the GOP’s standing at the outset of a crucial midterm-election year.”