Homan announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a

Trump’s border czar announces 700 immigration officers to immediately leave Minnesota
By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Updated 8:37 AM CST, February 4, 2026

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.

About 700 of the roughly 3,000 federal officers deployed around Minnesota will be withdrawn, Homan said. The immigration operations have upended the Twin Cities and escalated protests, especially since the killing of protester Alex Pretti, the second fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis.

“Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, and as a result of the need for less public safety officers to do this work and a safer environment, I am announcing, effective immediately, we’ll draw down 700 people effective today — 700 law enforcement personnel,” Homan said during a news conference.

Homan said last week that federal officials could reduce the number of federal agents in Minnesota, but only if state and local officials cooperate. His comments came after President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.

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[sboatcar]

1. I wonder what the specifics here are

Since MPD doesn't ask immigration status, is this just a performative thing? I'm not sure.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Most of the rest will be quietly "undeployed" over the next several weeks

The people of Minneapolis beat they asses.

Respect to the Twin Cities!

[malaise]

5. That hearing yesterday was a disaster for Donvict et al

[malaise]

6. That hearing yesterday was a disaster for Donvict et al

[oasis]

3. Good riddance!

[malaise]

4. See Dems held a scathing hearing

and suddenly there is a drawdown

of 700 goons immediately.

Bodycams are fine - what about masks and fake license plates?
ICE out period.

[Greg_In_SF]

7. And

2000 agents remain.

[Prairie Gates]

9. Bookmarking

[a kennedy]

19. Won't be taking my upside down flag down UNTIL THEY'RE ALL GONE OUT OF MY STATE OF MINNESOTA!!!!!!

ICE OUT!!! 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[Prairie Gates]

25. And now they're going away

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/12/us/trump-news

Glad I book marked the little premature celebration. And very glad that the good people of the Twin Cities kicked the shit out of the fascist bastards.

[Greg_In_SF]

28. Not

all of them.

[Prairie Gates]

29. Try to contain your triumphalism

The vast majority of them got sent the fuck away.

They lost. And everybody knows it.

[Greg_In_SF]

30. I'll call

it a partial win.

[Prairie Gates]

31. Oh, clearly not total

The MAGAfascist trashbags murdered two innocent civilians in the street, and kidnapped and brutalized thousands more.

Definitely have to weigh the fact that they've been exposed as Nazi scum and that the whole anti-immigration policy agenda is collapsing under its own cruelty and infeasibility against that.

[mountain grammy]

8. Shocking that there are 700 agents in Minneapolis

even more shockng is there are a couple thousand left! Fuck ICE!

[Johonny]

10. There are like 600 officers for normal crimes

Why the fuck do they need 2300 ICE agents. This is still a huge waste of our tax dollars.

[EdmondDantes_]

14. When they are so untrained that they need 5+ agents to detain one person

It makes sense that they a bunch more agents.

[Prairie Gates]

15. This was a terrorist plan to attack and punish Minnesota specifically

They thought they had prepared the ground sufficiently with their goofy fraud nonsense, but they ran into a buzzsaw. What kind of a moron attacks Minnesotans in the middle of winter?

[mopinko]

11. hiding the 1s who have done crimes?

getting the perps out of town b4 they’re charged?

[allegorical oracle]

12. NOW where are they going?? Don't forget the "warehousing" that's being set up. If Miller

gets his way, 3,000 people per DAY would be captured. There's no way that so many folks are criminals.

I'm in Florida, and DeSantis is setting up a third detention center between east Orlando and the city of Cocoa, which is on the Atlantic Ocean. Who is to be detained in these lock-ups?

If I'm remembering accurately, the issue of procuring Walmart basements came up during the first drumpf administration. I chuckled at that because almost nobody has a basement in Florida. Anybody else recall that?

[Prairie Gates]

16. ICE and CBP has never made Miller's quotas anywhere

Last edited Wed Feb 4, 2026, 12:23 PM - Edit history (1)

The numbers they are pulling only speak to how infeasible and unserious their leadership and task-setting is.

There are supposedly between 200,000 and 300,000 undocumented people in the Chicagoland area. Operation midway Blitz had netted 3000 over the course of two months, and many of those people were let go. Even if its the lower number (200,000) and 60% of those see the enforcement actions and choose to self deport, it would still take ICE/CBP about 60 months at their most aggressive enforcement level to "clear" the rest. That's with the most generous assumptions of actual numbers and projected self-deportations. In other words, what they propose to be doing would stretch far beyond the current administration at the most unsustainable level of deployment. And that's just Chicago.

And they don't even make those numbers, really.

The whole thing is a childish fantasy of Stephen Miller transformed into unworkable policy.

[themaguffin]

13. That type of saturation was/is so out of bounds & it's absolutely disgusting that the GOP lets it happen.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. The ones guilty of felonies?

Just get them all out, RFN, Tommy.

[Jilly_in_VA]

18. Word is they are going to Ohio

looking for Haitians. People in the Springfield area are already reportedly making arrangements to "Anne Frank" their Haitian neighbors. Good people are everywhere!

[orangecrush]

22. It's coming down to that.

[dickthegrouch]

20. Is it "Officers", or "Agents", or "People"?

Officers are management.
Agents are trained.
People are random goons.

This article uses and confuses all three terms.

I'd be very worried if 700 Management personnel were being withdrawn, there's little enough management happening already. With fewer management, there could be a much worse problem than there already is.

Exactly who is being drawn down.

[Jilly_in_VA]

23. I' call them "ICE GOONS"

I don't give a flying fuck what this so-called administration calls them.

[dickthegrouch]

24. I was actually whining more about the precision in the article than anything else.

But, if we are to defend ourselves in court, the precision may be important.

[orangecrush]

21. GTFO

scum

[JustAnotherGen]

26. He's lying

And they won't let up.

[Jilly_in_VA]

27. Two questions remain

1. How many are still there?

2.. Where are the rest going? Because he has to put them somewhere.....