Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said after meetings with White House border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday that they’d conveyed one key message: The immigration enforcement surge there needs to end.
The meetings were the first since President Donald Trump dispatched Homan to Minneapolis to take over “Operation Metro Surge” from Gregory Bovino. The Border Patrol official left the city after intense backlash to his handling of federal agents’ fatal shooting of Alex Pretti last week.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday that a reduction in federal agents would come if local police assisted in detaining migrants who have committed crimes. She also called for the state’s leaders to end “sanctuary” policies.