Border czar Tom Homan says ICE surge operation in Minneapolis is ‘over’

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Border czar Tom Homan instructed CNN's Sara Sidner on Friday that ICE's immigration surge in Minneapolis is "over," and that the company's footprint would shrink to roughly 150 brokers "inside every week."

Throughout his interview on "CNN Information Central," Homan was requested in regards to the standing of the immigration agent drawdown in Minneapolis.

"The place are we? What number of officers have left? What number of are nonetheless there and the way lengthy will they keep?" Sidner questioned.

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White Home border czar Tom Homan deployed to Minnesota on Jan. 26, 2026, to run level on the immigration crackdown within the state. (Jim Watson/Getty Photos)

Though Homan mentioned he was uncertain of the precise variety of brokers remaining within the metropolis, he defined his plans for immigration operations in Minneapolis transferring ahead.

"My plan is to get again to the common footprint, which is 150, however with a few caveats," Homan mentioned. "Primary, we do have a small staff of safety forces to again up ICE brokers in case issues get out of hand. And if regulation enforcement continues to reply like they've dedicated to, then we'll pull that small drive out."

Regardless of the planned reduction of federal immigration brokers in Minneapolis, Homan confirmed that the investigators probing alleged widespread fraud within the metropolis will "stay till the investigations are over."

"However so far as the immigration surge, it is over," he continued. "And we must be again to common footprint inside every week."

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Earlier within the interview, Homan was requested why he referred to the immigration operation in Minneapolis as "an important success," regardless of being so unpopular with a number of the metropolis's residents and management.

"Nicely, I by no means anticipated the politicians to name it an important success, to present President Trump a win. However backside line, the streets of Minneapolis and the streets in Minnesota are safer in the present day as a result of we're working with an unprecedented variety of sheriffs within the state that may name us earlier than they launch a public security menace to the road," he responded. "That is safer for the group, safer for brokers, [safer] for the alien."

An individual is detained by federal brokers on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Ryan Murphy/AP)

"We now have nice relationships with the state. They honored detainers for anyone [in] the state jail system," Homan continued. "And even in Minneapolis, Mayor Frey, we cannot agree on a lot, however Minneapolis PD was really responding after I met with the mayor to take down the unlawful roadblocks put up by agitators. And all of the regulation enforcement, each chief of police I met, each sheriff I met promised to answer public issues of safety."

The border czar added that when ICE is finishing up enforcement operations, "they get surrounded by agitators and issues get uncontrolled," however native authorities have "dedicated to responding" to potential security issues.

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Final week, Homan told reporters throughout a information convention on the Bishop Whipple Federal in Minneapolis that the operation succeeded in lowering public security threats with "unprecedented ranges of coordination" from state officers and native regulation enforcement.

White Home border czar Tom Homan speaks throughout a press convention on the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Constructing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Feb. 4, 2026. (Charly Triballeau/AFP through Getty Photos)