WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to end his unprecedented and hotly protested deportation surge in Minnesota, White House border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday, with many immigration enforcement agents set to return to their home states over the next week.
Under Operation Metro Surge, Trump, a Republican, had deployed about 3,000 armed immigration agents by late January to deport migrants in Minnesota. He has touted it as the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, and ?it came over the objections and condemnations of Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, and scores of residents who filled the streets of the state¡¯s biggest cities in protest.
On ?different days ?in January, immigration agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis who had come out to protest or observe the agents, and ?Trump¡¯s feud with Minnesota boiled over into one of the most fraught political crises he has faced in his presidency.
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