Homan in Minnesota: Due to ‘Unprecedented Collaboration’ Admin Withdrawing 700 People
“We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets.”
Border Czar Tom Homan announced that, due to “unprecedented collaboration” between the administration and local officials, he will withdraw 700 federal agents from Minnesota.
Homan wants a complete withdrawal from the Twin Cities, but that would require cooperation and compliance with federal immigration laws.
Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, and as a result of the need for less law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I have announced, effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people, effective today. 700 law enforcement personnel.
We have also fully integrated CBP personnel into the ICRO team structure under one unified chain of command, not two chains of command. There’d be one chain of command here. Any large enforcement operation I’ve ever been involved with, there’s one chain of command, and that’s where we’re moving forward.
.@RealTomHoman in Minneapolis: "Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, and as a result of the need of less law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I am announcing effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people." https://t.co/WvZtxhqDOh pic.twitter.com/KRIlclcdyd
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2026
Homan stressed cooperation between the two sides, including law enforcement, allowing ICE to take in illegal aliens before they’re released:
…the attorney general, Mayor Frey, and law enforcement officials about increasing coordination in a lawful way between the county jails and ICE to avoid public safety threats being released back in the community. While we had our differences, one thing was clear, we are all committed to public safety for all who live in the Twin Cities.
We have made significant progress under the direction of President Trump, working with state and local officials here in Minnesota, and I expect that to increase in the coming weeks. We continue to have discussions. I’ll have discussions this afternoon.
We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets. Unprecedented cooperation.
Now, say it again, this is efficient. Requires only one or two officers to assume custody of a criminal alien target, rather than eight or 10 officers going into the community and arresting that public safety threat. This frees up more officers to arrest or remove criminal aliens, more officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails, means less officers on the street doing criminal operations.
This is smart law enforcement, not less law enforcement. It’s safer for the community, safer for the officers, and safer for the alien.
This coordination also makes it far more safe for the Twin Cities.
🚨Tom Homan just announced: Minnesota counties are NOW LETTING ICE INTO THE JAILS, unprecedented cooperation is happening RIGHT NOW!
“We have an unprecedented number of counties allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens BEFORE they hit the streets!” pic.twitter.com/iruvuJ6yoJ
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 4, 2026
Homan mentioned that during his first press conference, he wanted organization and crystal clear procedures. He also made it known that just because you have a badge doesn’t mean you’re free to do what you want. You must follow procedures.
It truly sounds like it was a mess before Homan arrived. The man knows what he is doing:
During my press conference last week, I announced that moving forward, ICE will be conducting targeted immigration enforcement operations like ICE has traditionally done for decades, based on reasonable suspicion to question and detain. ICE will conduct these operations and transnational criminal organization investigations with a focus on national security and public safety.
I want to be clear, just because you prioritize public safety threats don’t mean we forget about everybody else. We will continue to enforce the immigration laws in this country.
To help execute this, we have developed and implemented a multi-agency surge task force with an operational framework that clarifies lines of effort, integrated enforcement, investigative, and special response efforts.
A unified Joint Operations Center has been established to manage all operations and ensure efforts aligned with priorities of the mission. This reorganization also enables ICE to leverage joint intelligence capabilities to effectively target threats, as well as to reduce overall personal footprint and enhance public safety and confidence in the agency’s capabilities and presence here.
I’ve also ensured that officials from legal Internal Affairs offices remain on the ground as long as this operation continues.
.@RealTomHoman: "We have developed and implemented a multiagency surge task force within the operational framework that clarifies lines of effort, integrated enforcement, investigative and special response efforts. A unified joint operations center has been established to manage… pic.twitter.com/I4iwYO1EKr
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2026
I’m not shocked that Homan was behind the decision to equip all federal agents with body cameras. I bet it disgusted him that ICE agents did not have them:
During our efforts to identify and implement improvements of how operations are planned, conducted, and managed, we identified a gap in regard to the use of body worn cameras. This was actually raised by the workforce when I started walking around talking to people here. Some officers and agents had them, some didn’t. That inconsistency was unacceptable, so we moved immediately to prioritize full body cam deployment in the city.
I discussed this with Secretary Noem a couple of days ago, and she made the decision to deploy them. The plan is to deploy them nationwide, but it’s priority for the city. Right now, there’s actually $20 million in the spending bill to further fund the deployment of body cameras. The President is supportive of this decision because we have nothing to hide. We want to be fully transparent in what we do.
.@RealTomHoman: "During our efforts to identify and implement improvements of how operations are planned, conducted, and managed, we identified a gap in regard to the use of body-worn cameras… that inconsistency was unacceptable, so we moved immediately to prioritize full body… pic.twitter.com/OVb54GMYvR
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2026
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I do wonder what threats to Minnesota pols were delivered in order to get them to abandon their Sanctuary State practices. I’m curious. Not that it matters, I suppose. I am satisfied that ICE will be more effective at their duties.
Next on the agenda: What to do about about the agitators attempting to stop the fewer ICE agents doing their thing? I don’t think they’re part of this new working relationship.
I suspect that the episode a week ago with leftists storming Walz’s office and Omar getting sprayed led to the MN Dem leadership realizing that they were not immune to attacks from the lunatics they unleashed. They will at least support law enforcement to the degree that it protects them from their own mob.
Homan brings the kinder, gentler ICE. vs Stephen Miller’s 3000 a day quotas and unconstitutional searches.
So…what state is next? Et tu, Abigail Spanberger?
I seriously doubt no one else thought of going into jails. Trump and Walz made some kind of deal in that phone call and this is part of it. Frey and Walz were stonewalling at every turn before. They still are to some degree but concessions were made.
It feels like the children have won.
Really? You think Democrats will be happy that their team has rolled over and is now working with ICE?
These people will be livid that ANY cooperation is taking place.
My tinfoil hat smells (welcome) bureaucratic trickery.
What if Homan is really pulling 1,100 agents out of “reddish Minnesota,” redeploying 400 of those into hellish Minnesota, and keeping the camera on the 700 that are actually going home?
Because that’s what I’d do.
Yeah. It was noteworthy he said ‘…from MN’ and NOT Minneapolis. In the areas where local Sheriff and PD are allowing ICE to to pick up illegal aliens already in custody from their jails the number of ICE agents can significantly decrease. In areas where they are still refused entry into jails and have to go find them on the streets …that takes far higher numbers of ICE agents to get the mission accomplished.
“We have an unprecedented number of counties allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens BEFORE they hit the streets!”
Missing: the number of counties complying, and the number of counties not complying.
So Walz’s, Frey’s and the DFL in MN’s attempt to divert attention away from the massive multibillion dollar fraud is about over?
“due to unprecedented collaboration” Homan must have had a hell of a conversation with Mn 3 stooges. So far, Democrat street performers will be hardest hit.
Nah, he end=ran the three stooges. He went directly to “friendly” counties and struck independent deals for cooperation. He isolated the stooges, froze them, and polarized them.
Trump should comment on this, stating that he was even considering building a border wall between Minnesota and the states that share borders with it.
It doesn’t mean much unless Hennepin and Ramsey counties are cooperating.
So now does Besset go in with his fraud team with security?
I get the feeling that a shoe still remains to fall prior to any retreat, perceived or not.
Translation:
We need these officers in other blue state hell holes.
Following Tom Homan’s announcement that federal agents will shift toward jail-based transfers, protests in Minnesota will die down. Right?
Wrong! Protest activity is expected to pivot toward local detention facilities—–
Protesters: Our mission is strictly to protect “innocent people”
ICE: Okay, we’ll just pick up prisoners at detention facilities. Everybody will be happy.
Protesters: Ha. Ha. We’re moving the goal posts. Now we’ll protest at detention facilities.
Wait till the cops stop arresting them.
Different and more difficult PR narrative when the attacks move from ‘mean old Federal gov’t facilities’ cast in the cosplay as ‘outsiders’ interfering in local affairs to raising a riotous mob at the local Sheriff’s Jail. Doesn’t mean they won’t try but it’s a tougher sell to portray local Sheriff/PD as ‘outsiders’ whose presence is the cause of riotous mobs.
lefty is probably drugging maga students and giving them to ice
dont trust lefty
if true than anti ice rioters will now be burning down the cities /anyone who has cooperated with the feds
I think this what you call a win-win, ICE gets better collaboration to get their job done safely, and the stupid protestors get to claim they won because there are less ICE agents. It really ridiculous, all Minnesota had to do was colloborate in the 1st place. But of course not then we woldn;t have had all the media spectacle and hyperbole.
Wait and see… State/local have some big shoes to refill now, to prove themselves cooperating. Also, the new bodycams are going to cut alot of the baloney.