Overview
- Trump’s envoy Tom Homan announced the immediate removal of 700 federal immigration officers, without clarifying whether the reduction applies to Minneapolis alone or statewide.
- Roughly 2,000 federal officers remain on the ground, compared with about 150 before the January surge.
- Homan said he will stay in Minneapolis until “everything is finished” and pledged that immigration enforcement and expulsions will continue every day.
- He cited arrests to date that include 139 people with assault convictions, 87 sex offenders, and 28 identified as gang members.
- The drawdown follows weeks of protests after the January killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, and Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz call the step insufficient and urge a faster, wider pullback.