Alex Pretti’s shooting also has political implications. It’s the latest incident at home and abroad that raises questions over whether Trump, with his diminished approval ratings on most issues, has lost the public only a year into his second term.

Congressional Republicans showed signs of wavering on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the wake of another shooting of a US citizen in Minnesota.

A judge will hear arguments on Monday as state and local officials seek to halt the federal deployment of immigration agents in Minnesota. The case has taken on heightened urgency after federal agents killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the chaotic scenes unfolding in the state.

The child’s immigration status may be a critical factor, and it is unclear if the 5-year-old was legally in the United States. If he wasn’t, he may be subject to deportation with one or both parents. Charles, the ICE official, said Friday that the family entered the United States together, suggesting the he was not a U.S.-born citizen.

The 5-year-old immigrant boy taken into ICE custody alongside his father in Minnesota has an active immigration case and cannot be legally deported yet, records reviewed by CBS News indicate.

By Tim Evans and Andy Sullivan MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. immigration agents shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis on Saturday, officials said, sparking fierce protests and condemnations from local leaders in the second such incident this month.

'Many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault,' the Obamas wrote in a statement following the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

A federal immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.

As ICE and Border Patrol agents increasingly work alongside one another nationwide, it's often become difficult to tell them apart.

Plus, Democrats’ demands on homeland security might bring a shutdown, and Republicans deal with razor-thin House majority,