The Trump administration will immediately pull about 700 federal immigration enforcement agents out of Minnesota, though roughly 2,000 officers will remain deployed, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday amid ongoing protests over the crackdown.
In an unprecedented surge, U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of armed immigration enforcement agents in and around Minneapolis this year to βdetain and deport migrants, resulting in angry and sometimes violent confrontations with residents and street protests across the nation.
Homan said the deportation campaign was in the interest of public safety, and that he was partially drawing down the deployment because he was seeing "unprecedented" cooperation from Minnesota'
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