NPR: Border czar says he plans to "draw down" ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota
It has been at work since the uproar over the death last weekend of Alex Pretti. NPR reports that Tom Homan, the Trump administration's border czar, said in a press conference yesterday that the federal government is working on a plan to reduce the number of U.S. immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota.
The announcement comes a few days after he arrived in the midwestern state to oversee Operation Metro Surge, an aggressive immigration operation that has brought about 3,000 federal officers to the state, led to the arrest of many undocumented immigrants without a criminal record, and to the death of two U.S. citizens: Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti.
According to NPR, Homan said that "I do not want to hear that everything that's been done here has been perfect." "Nothing's perfect, anything can be improved on, and what we've been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient, by the book. The mission is going to improve because of the changes we're making internally."
