He claims he is already reducing ICE presence in Minneapolis, that he’s getting cooperation from county jails, and that they aren’t harassing random citizens anymore.
White House border czar Tom Homan announced Wednesday that he’s immediately pulling 700 federal agents from Minnesota, citing “productive discussions” with state and local officials and “unprecedented cooperation” from county jails.
The Trump administration official, who recently took over Operation Metro Surge, said the reduction in agents is the result of “smarter enforcement, not less enforcement.” He pledged to continue to enforce immigration laws, with the goal of helping the president “achieve mass deportations.”
I can believe that they have reduced the number of ICE agents, but it still leaves 2000, outnumbering local police.
Working with the counties is a good idea, except then they’re only going to pick up immigrants that have committed a crime. They won’t achieve their deportation quotas that way, so I don’t believe a word of it. We do have red counties that would eagerly turn over any brown people that were arrested for jaywalking or murder, but then, why would we need any ICE at all?
Operations have become more efficient through coordination with county jails that are allowing ICE to take custody of undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes before they’re released into the community, according to Homan.
“Rather than having whole teams out looking for a criminal alien who was just released, now we have one agent at that jail picking that person up. That, and the operation has been successful in the number of arrests, so the target list is reducing.”
Homan can’t resist threatening us with another ultimatum.
He added that his goal is a “complete drawdown” as soon as possible, but again said the end of Operation Metro Surge is “largely contingent upon the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ICE and its federal partners that we’re seeing in the community.”
NO.
Protesting is not an illegal activity, and we’ll continue to oppose the criminal and racist goal of achieving “mass deportations”. We like our immigrant neighbors, we are most of us descended from immigrants, we don’t share Stephen Miller’s horrific white nationalist vision, so get the fuck out of here.
Indicting Jonathan Ross, Jesus Ochoa, and Raymundo Gutierrez for murder would be a good step.
Indicting Homan for the $50k bribe he accepted would be a good start, too.
Bribery has by any reasonable definition become legal.
What!!!
That would be illegal on the West Coast.
Oregon, Washington, and California have state laws prohibiting local police from cooperating with ICE.
These laws have been tested in court and up held. States have no obligation to enforce Federal laws.
ICE and Holman always lie.
The target of ICE isn’t immigration enforcement.
They are right wing terrorists and their target is the American people.
I believe nothing Trump’s sycophants say.
“Nice town you have here. Would be a shame if anything bad should happen to it…”
Thatcher and Reagan were weasels, but they tried not to be blatant about their transgressions.
Homan, Trump and the rest are cartoon villains. In a Batman film, the director would dump them from the script as too far over the top.
If MAGA loses control of Congress in November, Trump becomes a lame-duck President. Both he and they know it so they will do anything they can to prevent it. This talk of “nationalizing” elections is a measure of their desperation. The question is how far they will try to go to get their way.
It’s easy to preach to the choir that we shouldn’t believe the Trump administration’s lies. Does your governor believe them, though? Walz seems very eager to return to the status quo w.r.t. immigration enforcement and midnight raids.
It’s like I’ve been saying, you don’t have an opposition party. The Democrats are collaborating with Trump.
@ ^ Bad Faith Trumpist Troll : Wow. Trying to turn this into an attack on the Democratic party somehow. What a non-surprise. Your deflection and de facto support for Trump is noted yet again, Trumpy troll.
You haven’t answered the questions put to you here :
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/16/too-soon-too-accurate/comment-page-1/#comment-2290463
either have you?
You know none of this horror and bloodshed would be happening in Minnesota under a Kamala presidency don’t you.
Note my use of a full stop and not a question mark. 5
Will you admit you were catastrophically wrong now?
Still happy with Trump as your choice out of the two real choices in the final possibly legitimate~ish USoA presidential election?
Oh and no, I don’t believe or trust a single Trumpist scumbag ever and, yes, that includes you.
A big chunk of the Democratic party is either dead wood, or downright rotten.
But not all of it.
As we can see today. Support the good ones and primary the ones that have proven themselves inadequate in a literal fight for democracy.
Fun fact; by bringing the Clintons to answer questions the Republicans have created a precedent. After November the Democrats should subpoena the hell out of this administration.
beholder:
What a stupid thing to claim. It is easy to say it to anyone, not just the “choir”.
(Also, a choir does not require preaching, it is part of the preaching)
So stupid! It is not a Westminster system! It is the USA.
@ ^ John Morales : Choirs sing not preach altho’ I guess you can preach through song as well.
Also if only the USoA DID have a Westminster system. Reckon it’d be better off than it is now – especially if they added preferential voting. At least in Westminster systems obvs wrong, incompetent leaders can be very quickly replaced eg. Liz Truss lasting less time than a decaying lettuce – which might’ve made a better PM too but anyhow.
Elections can also be called when needed not at fixed intervals something else y’all might want to adopt.
The USoA’s governance system is demonstrably shithouse. It badly needs major reforms or replacement with a better one.
Oh & Dishonest Trump Enabling Troll “beholder” – question I know you won’t answer but anyhow :
Do YOU actually think we should believe the Trump regimes lies?
As you clearly imply in your #10 above.
tangential but sicne thinking choirs singing & not preaching* now
‘I Am Australian’ with Pitjantjatjara lyrics (1 min long – english sung at end.)
.* I mean certainly not preaching religion as such anyhow.. Guess some subjective quality to what is meant by “preaching” precisely.. Still.
Transliteration -y E pluribus unem..
… “smarter enforcement, not less enforcement.”
IOW, they started with stupider enforcement: nice little dig at Bovino there.
StevoR@14,
Yes, a clear condemnation of the American political system is that there’s no way to get rid of Trump without putting Vance into whatever remains of the White House. Yet if the POTUS is so rancid they must be removed, chances are their VPOTUS will be just as vile. (Being able to force Spiro T. Agnew out and impose the dimwitted but more-or-less respectable Ford as VPOTUS before forcing Nixon out in turn was a huge piece of luck for the USA and indeed the world!)
@ ^KG : ” Yet if the POTUS is so rancid they must be removed, chances are their VPOTUS will be just as vile. “
Or viler.
Yup.
Truth.
Also the common tactic of deterring assassination and impeachment by having an utterly awful Veep.
Needs to be a way of removing whole rotten lot at once here. Fucking obviously.
“He added that his goal is a “complete drawdown” as soon as possible, but again said the end of Operation Metro Surge is “largely contingent upon the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ICE and its federal partners that we’re seeing in the community.””
In other words,
“The floggings will continue until moral improves”