Overview
- At his first Minneapolis press conference, Tom Homan vowed to keep enforcing immigration laws but said operations will be narrower, safer and by the book, with a drawdown plan dependent on jail access and local notifications.
- A new internal ICE memo reviewed by Reuters instructs officers to avoid engaging with “agitators” and to target arrests to people with criminal charges or convictions, scaling back earlier street stops.
- DHS said the two agents involved in Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting are on leave pending investigation, following weeks of protests that also followed the earlier killing of Renee Good.
- Judicial pressure intensified as a federal judge cited 96 ICE violations of court orders this month and another judge temporarily blocked refugee detentions in Minnesota and ordered releases.
- Senate Democrats demanded limits on ICE tactics and threatened to withhold DHS funding, while Maryland advanced bills to end 287(g) agreements and ban officer face coverings and ICE ended enhanced operations in Maine.