On Wednesday, President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, announced that 700 federal officers would be immediately withdrawn from Minneapolis following "unprecedented collaboration" between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), state prisons, and local jails in Minnesota.
Homan, who was sent to Minnesota last week to take over command of immigration operations after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, said during a Wednesday press conference that about 2,000 immigration officers will remain in the state. Although the ultimate goal is to return to the "normal operation footprint" of about 150 agents, Homan said ending Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, will require the "continued cooperation of state and local law enforcement and the decrease of the violence, the rhetoric, and the attacks against ICE and Border Patrol."
