The Trump administration has minimized and is now ending its surge of ICE officers in the state of Minnesota, as announced on February 12. The border czar of the United States, Tom Homan, revealed the ending of the operations taking place in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area.
The removal of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in Minnesota has come after a multitude of ICE attacks in the state. Because of ICE, there have been thousands of arrests and many mass protests throughout the country.
These attacks have resulted in two deaths and nationwide protests over the government’s allowing such terror to happen. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were both brutally shot by the federal officers in the Minneapolis area. Their deaths caused a political uproar over the dangers of the federal agents.
Due to the death of Alex Pretti, who was protesting when he was shot, Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino was removed from being the commander and demoted to his former job in California.
ICE’s removal will likely take some time to come to fruition with Governor Tim Walz stating “it’s going to be a long road”, but there have already been a couple of officer reductions in the state amid the dispute.
The controversies surrounding ICE are not over yet, as there are still many agents not only in Minnesota, but locally as well. ICE agents are currently in both the Harrisburg and Lancaster areas, with one raid occurring a few weeks ago in a Harrisburg supermarket.
