The government of Donald Trump announced the “immediate” withdrawal of 700 immigration police officers of ICE that are in Minnesotaafter weeks of tension in the state capital, Minneapolis, due to the death of two people at the hands of federal agents.
Hours after the announcement, the US president said, in an interview for NBC, the ‘lesson’ he learned about the incidents in Minneapolis: “I learned that maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch. But we still have to be firm.”
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At the same time, the border tsar, Tom Homanannounced that the deployment against immigration will continue with some 2 thousand agents what They will continue to carry out raidsbut the ordered troop reduction would take place “immediately.”
On the other hand, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fryand the governor of Minnesota, Tim Waltzboth Democrats, called the announcement “a step forward in the right direction” but urged the federal government to end your extensive operation soon of immigration in the state.
The operation “Metro Surge”as the immigration police operation is called, must end “immediately,” Mayor Fry said in a publication on X.
Walz adopted a similar tone and asked “a bigger and faster reduction” of officers, as well as state-led investigations into the deadly shootings in Minneapolis.
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Trump, in response, complained about the words of both: “I called the governor. I called the mayor. I had great conversations with them. And then I see them ranting and foaming. “Literally as if the call didn’t happen.”
For weeks, thousands of federal policeamong them armed agents and wearing balaclavas, they multiply raids in the state to expel undocumented migrants, one of the Trump’s goals in his second term.
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