About 2,000 personnel will be left in Minnesota, where President Trump’s immigration crackdown has generated outrage.
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said on Wednesday that the federal government would immediately withdraw 700 law enforcement officers from Minneapolis, scaling down the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the area.
The change came after the Trump administration sent thousands of federal officers and agents to Minnesota, a deployment that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said was the agency’s “largest operation to date.” About 2,000 officers and agents would be left in the state, Mr. Homan said.
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State and local officials said the drawdown was welcome but did not go far enough. Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, a Democrat, said in a statement that the reduction in officers was “a step in the right direction” but that 2,000 federal officers in the region was still “not de-escalation.”
This is not a victory until they return every person they kidnapped, legal status irrelevant.
Its only a victory if we can ensure they don’t attack another city in 2 weeks.
I’m actually not happy they’re cooling their aggression because it feels like they’re just letting the boiling pot cool for a sec, we need the heat to keep coming to keep people angry and engaged enough to not fall back into apathy and putting their heads in the sand again. Just like school shootings, if you wait long enough, Minnesota will just be another school shooting that people shake their heads over and go back to doing whatever they were doing.
YUP. “Flood the zone with shit, get people distracted with something else and you can do whatever the fuck you want” is pretty much the government way now.
Only 2000 more to go. Then dismantle ICE altogether.
What a way to try and paint this as a good thing. Not all of them. Only some.
