Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday said President Donald Trump has agreed with his proposal to conclude the monthslong federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota.
“We’ve seen a big change here in the last couple of weeks,” Homan said at a press conference in Minneapolis. “All good changes.”
Homan said the number of enforcement targets in the Twin Cities region, which has been flooded since December with thousands of officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies, has been “greatly reduced.”
Homan last week had announced a drawdown of 700 agents from the area encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul, a roughly 25% pullback that still left about 2,000 officers in place.
The total withdrawal “will continue to the next week,” he said Thursday morning.
