Overview
- White House border czar Tom Homan said roughly 700 officers are leaving immediately, with about 2,000 remaining in Minnesota under the ongoing enforcement surge.
- Homan tied the reduction to “unprecedented” cooperation from county jails that are transferring detainees to ICE, and he declined to specify which jurisdictions agreed.
- Federal command in the Twin Cities is now consolidated under ICE with CBP reporting into a single chain, with a stated shift toward custody pickups over roving street operations and recent deployment of body-worn cameras.
- The drawdown follows weeks of protests after U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti were fatally shot by federal agents, and a federal civil-rights investigation is underway into Pretti’s killing.
- Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey called the move a first step and urged a full pullout, while Vice President JD Vance said enforcement is not being reduced; separately, two school districts and a teachers union sued to bar immigration actions at or near schools.