The DHS agents involved in the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the far-left armed agitator who was fatally shot last weekend, have been place on administrative leave.

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin said this is part of standard protocol after an officer-involved shooting.

Two of the agents who discharged their weapons were placed on leave.

NEW: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the Border Patrol agents involved in the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota have now been placed on administrative leave as part of standard protocol after a shooting.

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 28, 2026

New details about the fatal shooting Alex Pretti emerged this week.

37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti of South Minneapolis appeared to resist arrest and attack federal law enforcement agents before he was fatally shot over the weekend.

A new government report sent to Congress reveals two DHS agents discharged their weapons during a struggle as Pretti resisted arrest.

CBP agents tried to take Pretti into custody after he refused to move out of the way, but a struggle ensued and he was shot multiple times.

“Pretti resisted CBP personnel’s efforts and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, a BPA yelled, ‘He’s got a gun!’ multiple times,” the report said, according to CBS News.

“Approximately five seconds later, a [Border Patrol agent] discharged his CBP-issued Glock 19 and a [CBP officer] also discharged his CBP-issued Glock 47 at Pretti. After the shooting, a BPA advised he had possession of Pretti’s firearm,” CBP added in the report. “The BPA subsequently cleared and secured Pretti’s firearm in his vehicle.”

According to CNN, Pretti broke a rib after getting tackled by agents as he attempted to impede an immigration operation just one week before his death.

Department of Homeland Security agents had their body cameras on during the confrontation and fatal shooting of leftist armed agitator Alex Pretti.

“Investigators are reviewing body-camera videos from immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to NBC News,” NBC News reported.

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Woke REP Ilhan Omar of Minnesota fired back at President Trump after he announced a Department of Justice investigation into her finances, accusing him on social media of “deflecting from your failures with lies and conspiracy theories” and demanding he “get your goons out of Minnesota.” Omar’s comments came as the Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told CBS News that even if an investigation proves the shooting of Alex Pretti was legally justified, “I don’t think that even matters at this point, because there is so much outrage and concern around what is happening in the city.” The fatal shootings of both Renee Good by federal agents on January 7, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old shot by Border Patrol agents on January 24, has put the spotlight on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport violent illegal aliens.

Omar has called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arguing that federal agents’ tactics are “terrorizing” communities and contradicted “the America we love.” She also condemned the Trump administration’s deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota while calling on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment for her characterization of Pretti as a “domestic terrorist.”

O’Hara claimed on “Face the Nation” that the federal agents’ tactics “are not safe, and it is generating a lot of outrage and fear in the community,” noting this was the second American citizen killed and the third shooting incident by federal agents in less than three weeks. The Minneapolis Police Chief criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the investigations, explaining that when his department responded to Pretti’s shooting scene, federal officials withheld “even the most basic information that is typical in a law enforcement-involved shooting.” Even though local state officials have been refusing to work with federal law enforcement for weeks to begin with.

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During her appearance on the program Tomémonos un café, María Herrera Mellado offered an analysis that goes beyond political rhetoric and focuses on the concrete results of the current U.S. strategy toward Latin America. For the analyst, Marco Rubio’s role as the first Hispanic Secretary of State is not merely symbolic but deeply strategic, as his Cuban background gives him direct insight into the authoritarian regimes that have shaped the region for decades.

The immigration attorney argued that the offensive led by Rubio, with the backing of President Donald Trump, has achieved what for

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A Danish pension fund, AkademikerPension, plans to sell its entire roughly $100 million holding of U.S. Treasuries by the end of January. The fund said the decision was driven by concerns over the U.S. credit rating, but also acknowledged that the dispute over Greenland made the move easier. Other European countries have threatened to sell not only U.S. government debt but also corporate stocks and bonds as retaliation for tariff pressure tied to Greenland.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump said Europe could proceed if it wished, but insisted the United States “holds all the cards.” As is often the case, Trump is correct.

Many people do not understand what it means when they read that China or another foreign country “holds U.S. debt,” or that the United States is a debtor nation. It is more disturbing  when world leaders appear not to understand how the debt market works.

Every country maintains a central bank that holds foreign currency reserves and gold. These reserves enable central banks to intervene in foreign exchange markets to manage their domestic currency’s value, facilitate international trade, and provide liquidity during crises. Central banks hold much of their reserves in U.S. Treasury securities, which they buy to weaken their domestic currency or sell to strengthen it.

As of the third quarter of 2025, the U.S. dollar accounted for 56.92% of global allocated foreign exchange reserves. This figure only includes U.S. Treasury securities, which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. The U.S. has the highest tax revenue base in the world and one of the most efficient taxation systems. While all countries issue government debt, no other country offers the same level of backing as U.S. government securities.

The 56.92% figure significantly understates dollar dominance because it excludes other dollar-denominated assets. According to the June 2024 Treasury International Capital survey, total foreign holdings of U.S. securities reached $30.9 trillion, including Treasury debt at $8.2 trillion, U.S. agency debt at $1.3 trillion, corporate debt at $4.2 trillion, and equities at $16.9 trillion.

The dollar’s role is even more dominant in actual commerce. While 40-50% of global trade is directly invoiced in dollars, the U.S. dollar appeared on one side of 89.2% of all foreign exchange transactions according to the Bank for International Settlements’ 2025 Triennial Survey. When businesses in non-dollar economies trade with each other, they typically convert their currencies through the dollar as an intermediary. For example, when a Brazilian company pays a Japanese supplier in yen, the transaction converts Brazilian reais to dollars, then dollars to yen. The dollar facilitates the transaction even though it does not appear on the trade invoice. When accounting for this vehicle currency function, the dollar’s actual role in enabling global commerce approaches 90%.

The primary reason countries cannot just dump all of their US dollars out of anger is that there is no other currency or debt instrument that offers the stability, safety, and usability of the US dollar. The dollar offers unmatched liquidity in the world’s deepest bond market, is backed by the largest economy and a government that has never defaulted, and serves as the primary currency for international trade.

For years, there has been talk of the “nuclear option,” meaning that countries around the world would become so fed up with the United States that they would band together and sell their U.S. government debt on the same day. While it would be nearly impossible to organize something like that, it also would not hurt the United States.

Treasury bills, notes, and bonds have set maturity dates. They can be bought and sold hundreds of times, but the United States only has to pay at maturity. As a result, it is irrelevant to the U.S. who holds the debt at any given moment.

When the supply of an asset floods the market, its price falls. If all $8.2 trillion in U.S. Treasuries hit the market on the same day, prices would plummet. At that point, the U.S. Treasury would step into the open market and buy back its own debt at a discount. In that scenario, Donald Trump would go down in history as the man who reduced the U.S. national debt.

As part of open market operations, the U.S. Federal Reserve monitors bond markets and buys U.S. government bonds. When prices fall, the U.S. gets a bargain. The current threat of Denmark selling $100 million in Treasuries would not even register as a rounding error against the roughly $500 to $900 billion in average daily trading volume. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed the significance of the Danish sell-off, calling the amount negligible and noting that Denmark has been reducing its Treasury holdings for years.

EU representatives have also floated the idea of divesting from all U.S.-based securities, including corporate stocks and bonds. This would be economic suicide for Europe. The very reason European investors put money into U.S. private companies in the first place was because they believed those firms offered the best investments with the highest upside potential. Selling strong U.S. companies in order to buy shares in firms they had previously rejected makes no economic sense.

Moreover, while the media claims that European investors hold over $10 trillion in U.S. equities, those assets are largely held by private firms, not governments. For Europe to carry out such a divestment, governments would have to pass sweeping and draconian laws forcing private companies and banks to sell U.S. stocks. Once again, prices would plummet, and institutional investors from the United States and Asia would move in and buy those assets at a discount. Europe would lose substantial value, while the U.S. and Asia would gain.

The idea of threatening the United States by trading in currencies other than the dollar, or by holding reserves and securities outside the dollar system, is not new. It has been discussed repeatedly since World War II but has never happened because there is no viable alternative. Even China has been unable to convince its BRICS partners to use the yuan instead of the dollar for more than a small percentage of their transactions or foreign currency reserves.

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