The government of Donald Trump closes the special operation against the immigration illegal in the state of Minnesota (north), the border tsar announced this Thursday Tom Homanafter weeks of incidents and the death of two activists by United States federal agents.
Thousands of federal agents arrived Minnesota in December to carry out massive raids against irregular immigrants.
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These operations provoked the reaction of neighbors and activists, daily incidents and the death of two people from shots fired by federal agents.
“I have proposed, and President Trump has agreed, that this special operation conclude” in Minnesota, the official, Tom Homan, said at a news conference in the state capital, Minneapolis.
“A significant reduction has already begun this week and will continue next week,” he explained.
Homan suggested that the operations could take place in some other city.
“Next week we will deploy the agents who are here again to their places of origin, or to other areas of the country where they are needed. But we will continue to enforce immigration laws,” he said.
Democrats call for in-depth reforms to the operations of the Immigration and customs service (ICE), which include ending mobile patrols, Ban officers from hiding their faces and require warrants.
He Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleges that agents cover their faces to prevent activists from identifying them and the harassment translates into threats to their families.
The differences between Democrats and Republicans, who must agree on the DHS budget in Congress, could lead to a partial government shutdown starting Friday.
Minneapolis, governed by Democrats, is a “sanctuary” city, meaning the local police do not collaborate with federal immigration agencies..
The mayor of the city, Jacob Frey reacted to Homan’s announcement with the same criticisms. The ICE operation, he said, “has been catastrophic for our neighbors and businesses, and now it is time for a great comeback.”
The governor, Tim Waltzdeclared for his part “cautiously optimistic“.
Molly, a 42-year-old Minneapolis resident and banking product manager, told AFP: “I don’t believe it.”
“They mounted the same public relations stunt in Los Angeles,” he said, referring to an anti-immigration raid in that California city last summer.
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Minneapolis Raids Soon Turned Violentwith daily confrontations in the streets between masked agents and activists.
One of the incidents that shook the United States was the case of the Ecuadorian boy Liam Conejo, five years old, who was left in the hands of federal agents during the attempt to detain his undocumented father.
Both were transferred to a detention center in Texas, and were provisionally released by order of a judge, pending trial.
Then the outrage sparked by the deaths of activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti in January led to Homan’s urgent arrival in Minneapolis.
DHS VeteranHoman negotiated with state authorities measures to soften the impact of anti-immigrant operations.
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The Trump government assures that its main objective with this type of deployment is to locate, above all, undocumented immigrants who have also committed other types of crimes.
Democrats and migrant defense organizations maintain that the raids are excessively indiscriminate, and that even people with American nationality have been detained.
Homan assured that after negotiations with state authorities “we can now arrest criminal foreigners within the security of prisons throughout the state at the time they are going to be released, as we have already done in other states.”“.
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