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Minnesota ICE live: Trump insists immigration officers stay while Homan outlines plan to ‘draw down’ agents
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The Independent
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Read our Privacy noticePresident Donald Trump insisted Thursday that federal immigration agents are staying in Minnesota while his border czar, Tom Homan, outlined a plan to “draw down” agents.
Yes, I said it: draw down the number of people here because we have the efficiency, the safety of the jails and the prisons,” Homan said.
But when Trump was later asked whether he was pulling Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents out of Minnesota, the president said, “No, no.
Not at all.”Homan’s involvement in Minnesota comes amid ongoing backlash over the Trump administration’s handling of the second fatal shooting of an American at the hands of federal agents.