Stephen Miller makes dramatic U-turn on shooting of Alex Pretti as Kristi Noem throws immigration guru under the bus https://t.co/DfZGso6C1Q
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) January 28, 2026
Stephen Miller admitted that Border Patrol agents may ‘not have been following protocol’ during the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti as Kristi Noem appeared to blame him for the fallout.
Miller’s remarks were a dramatic U-Turn just days after the top Trump aide lambasted the 37-year-old nurse as ‘an assassin’ who ‘tried to murder federal agents.’
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Miller said: ‘We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol.’
He added that the ‘White House provided clear guidance to DHS that the extra personnel that had been sent to Minnesota for force protection should be used for conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors.’
Miller’s comments came as Noem appeared to blame him for claims by her Department of Homeland Security that Pretti intended to ‘massacre’ immigration agents.
‘Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,’ Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.
Noem had said during a press conference Sunday that Pretti was ‘brandishing a weapon’ and called him a ‘domestic terrorist’ who intended to harm law enforcement officers.
Miller tried to defend himself in his statement to the Daily Mail by claiming: ‘The initial statement from DHS was based on reports from CBP on the ground.’
He added that the extra personnel sent to Minnesota for DHS was to be used for ‘conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptors.’
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