The Border Patrol agents who subdued, punched, and fatally shot Veterans Affairs ICU nurse Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave, according to multiple reports. The paid leave will only last three days, an anonymous official told MS NOW. An unnamed Homeland Security official told The New York Times the placement was “standard protocol.”MS Now reported that those involved in the brutal killing will return to “desk duty” after three days, not field work. Critics of the Trump administration are not impressed by DHS placing the Border Patrol officers who killed Alex Pretti on paid administrative leave. A DHS official told the Times that the agents involved in the Pretti shooting were immediately placed on leave.