Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed that the Trump administration will keep a “small force” in Minnesota after ending the ICE surge.
Homan told Ed O’Keefe on Face the Nation:
Well, look about as of, we already removed well over 1000 people, and as of Monday, Tuesday, we’ll remove several hundred more.We’ll get back to the original footprint, with the exception of the agents there to do the fraud investigation. They’ll stay there and continue their work until they’re done. The agents investigating the church issue, where the people went into the church, they’ll stay and get that work done.But there will be, there will be a small force, a security force, what we call RFQs, that will be our security forces, that will respond to when our agents are out. And if it gets surrounded by agitators and things get out of control, and they’ll remain for a short period of time, just to make sure the coordination, the agreements we have with local state law enforcement, stay in place and they respond to a public safety threat when needed.And so hopefully those security forces, security that small footprint security forces can remove, can be removed really fairly quickly. I’m hoping. I think things are going the right direction, and I got faith they’ll continue that way.
President Donald Trump sent Homan to Minnesota on January 26 after two shootings ended in the fatalities of Minnesota civilians.
Homan announced an end to the surge last Wednesday, only two weeks after his arrival.
Homan accomplished more in two weeks than DHS Secretary Kristi Noem did in months. No drama. No theatrics.
O’Keefe asked about the ICE masks, which Homan said he doesn’t like either.
But Homan reminded the threats these agents face every day:
Well, I’m not a part of those negotiations as being done up on the Hill between Senate and House and the White House. I’m not really part of those negotiations.But look, you know, they want to say, “Stop racial profiling.” That’s just not occurring. I mean, ICE will detain, briefly detain, and question, but question somebody based on reasonable suspicion has nothing to do with racial profiling.As far as a mask. Look, you know, I don’t like the masks either, but because threats against ICE officers, you know, are up over 15,100%, actual assaults and threats are up over 8,000%, these men and women have to protect themselves.As far as identifying themselves, they all have placards identifying themselves as ICE, HSI, DEA, FBI, so they all have placards on them. So I’ll let the White House and members of Congress, you know, fight that out.But I think some of the asks are just, I think they’re unreasonable, because there is no racial profiling. There are identifying marks, but masks, you know, why don’t they talk about maybe passing legislation to make it illegal to dox agents or something like that, but well, the masks right now are for officer safety reasons.
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