Feb. 4 (UPI) -- About 25% of federal agents in Minnesota will leave "effective immediately," leaving about 2,000 still in the state, mostly in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.
Homan cited an "unprecedented" amount of cooperation between local officials and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the state since he was sent there as the reason for the drawdown.
"Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration and as a result of the need for less law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I have announced effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people effective today," he said Wednesday.
ICE and Border Patrol agents have been in Minnesota since December, and people have been actively protesting their presence. Two American citizens have been shot and killed by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge began.
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