The Trump Administration’s border ‘czar’ Tom Homan announced Thursday the end of the massive deployment of immigration agents in the state of Minnesota, in which two Americans lost their lives at the hands of troops.
“I have proposed it to him and President Trump has agreed, that this operation come to an end,” Homan explained about the end of the so-called Operation Metro Surge at a press conference in Minneapolis.
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According to the czar, the campaign “has produced the satisfactory results” that the Trump Administration had hoped for and he highlighted the work together with state and local officials “to improve coordination.”
“As a result of our efforts here, Minnesota is no longer a sanctuary state for criminals,” Homan said.
Since Trump ordered a heightened presence of immigration agents in Minnesota, two Americans, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, have died after being shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents.
After the latter’s death while protesting the agents’ raids in the city, the tension between protesters and federal troops escalated to such a level that Trump even threatened to activate the Insurrection Act to deploy the Army.
The czar’s announcement comes two weeks after the president removed Border Patrol Commander General Gregory Bovino, who was in charge of coordinating the operation, from the state.
In his place he assigned Homan, who on February 4 had already announced the withdrawal of 700 agents.
“As I said in my first press conference a couple of weeks ago, President Trump sent me here not because the operation was running flawlessly, but to identify problems and implement solutions that would improve the execution of our mission,” he said.
According to Homan, more than 4,000 arrests have been made since Operation Metro Surge began.
Despite the end of the massive deployment, the czar advanced that a “small contingent of personnel” will remain for a while in the state to “transfer full command and control to the local office”.
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With information from EFE
