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An F.B.I. agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis this month has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter. The agent, Tracee Mergen, left her job as a supervisor in the F.B.I.’s Minneapolis field office after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the immigration officer, Jonathan Ross, according to one of the people. Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings.

Top Homeland Security officials hit back Friday at viral claims that a 5-year-old boy was used as “bait” to arrest his father and then detained by ICE in Minnesota earlier this week. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) head Marcos Charles said the little boy, identified as Liam Conejo Ramos, was abandoned in a car by his illegal migrant father as federal officers attempted to arrest the dad Tuesday as part of a targeted operation. Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled ICE on foot, leaving his son behind, the ICE official said.

The Department of Homeland Security said a child, whom Minnesota Democrats alleged had been targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was actually "abandoned" during an immigration enforcement operation. After Democrats, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., shared an image of a 5-year-old boy online and claimed he was arrested by ICE while coming home from pre-school, the White House fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson condemned what the Trump administration views as the mainstream media working "hand-in-glove with Democrats to spread malicious lies about ICE operations."...