‘Unprecedented levels of coordination’: Homan confirms ICE surge in Minnesota winding down
Citing the newly developing “coordination” between federal border and immigration law enforcement officers with local authorities, and the “success” of a federal law enforcement surge in Minnesota that has now captured many “public safety threats,” Border Czar Tom Homan has announced that the federal presence in the state is winding down.
Thousands of illegal alien criminals have been removed from streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul as a result of a flood of federal officers that the administration of President Donald Trump dispatched to the region some weeks ago.
Their presence triggered a massive backlash from those who do not want federal border and immigration laws enforced, and two agitators were shot and killed, apparently while blocking agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The protests also included the illegal invasion by agitators of a church worship service, an act of violence for which multiple actors now are facing federal charges for violating the rights of those attending the service.
According to a report at the Daily Caller News Foundation, Homan said the federal government’s “Operation Metro Surge” is ending.
He said the officers would be returning to their home stations.
“With that, and the success that has been made arresting public safety threats and other priorities since this operation began, as well as the unprecedented levels of coordination we received from state officials and local law enforcement, I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said.
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He confirmed there remains a lot of work across the nation on the same issues.
A report from Fox News said Homan confirmed, “A significant drawdown that’s already been underway this week and will continue through the next week.”
The Trump administration had dispatched some 3,000 federal law enforcement officers early in December to accelerate the arrests and deportations of illegal alien criminals.
They were dispatched into a region with a massive Somali immigrant community where multiple federal investigations already were under way into allegations of massive social services fraud schemes that have cost American taxpayers billions and billions of dollars.
Some of the schemes were as simple as claiming to have set up a daycare and billing the government for millions of dollars while providing no services to any parent or child.
Those situations, which centered around the Somali immigrant community that largely makes up the congressional district represented by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., already have been resulting in charges, convictions, and jail sentences
Trump sent Homan to Minnesota in late January to address the unrest that took place following the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both of whom were shot by federal immigration officials.
Homan confirmed federal officers made some 4,000 arrests in the state already, and federal officers will continue to enforce federal law, arresting those who are in the United States illegally, with a priority on those who are public safety threats.
Homan earlier confirmed that there has been a significant rise in cooperation from local law enforcement, a factor that had been absent and was part of the reason federal officers were dispatched to the region.
Tom Homan Announces End To ICE Surge Operation In Minnesota: ‘I proposed … that this surge operation conclude’ https://t.co/OOonOWkduN
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 12, 2026
Tom Homan went to Minnesota to stop the chaos. Local government wasn’t doing its job, so he made them. Now police are showing up, deportations are happening, and the streets are safer. The media’s screaming disaster, but the numbers speak—over four thousand arrests, no more…
— Kevin Robinson (@HavanaClub56197) February 12, 2026
BREAKING: Tom Homan announces ICE has located 3,364 unaccompanied alien children in Minnesota so far that the Biden regime wasn’t even LOOKING for
Great job by ICE
Biden and Mayorkas were complicit in the worst child traffcking operation in US history. pic.twitter.com/w99C2kSHTY
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 12, 2026