FORT SNELLING, Minnesota ¨C The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is withdrawing some 700 federal immigration enforcement agents from Minnesota, although about 2,000 agents will stay in place, White House border czar Tom Homan announced on Wednesday, a number the state¡¯s Democratic leaders say is still too high.
In an unprecedented surge, Trump has deployed thousands of armed immigration enforcement agents in and around Minneapolis this year to detain and deport migrants, resulting in weeks of feuding with the state¡¯s elected leaders, 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. He was partially reducing the deployment because he was seeing ¡°unprecedented¡± ?cooperation from ?Minnesota¡¯s elected sheriffs who run county jails, although he did not give more details.
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