President Donald Trump‘s administration will end Operation Metro Surge, the monthslong immigration enforcement on Minnesota, border czar Tom Homan announced before a Senate committee Thursday (February 12) via NBC News.
“I have proposed and President Trump has concurred that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said.
The announcement followed Homan’s previous announcement that the Trump administration would pull 700 U.S. Immigration and Customs officers from Minneapolis, decreasing Operation Metro Surge by nearly 20%, earlier this month.
“My goal is, with the support of President Trump, to achieve a complete drawdown. And end the surge as soon as we can,” Homan said on February 4 via POLITICO. “A complete drawdown is going to depend on continued cooperation from state and local law enforcement and the decrease of the violence, the rhetoric and the attacks” against the ICE agents.
The decisions followed the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents 17 days apart in Minneapolis. Trump had previously said he intended to “de-escalate a little bit” in Minneapolis after the outrage over the shooting deaths of Good and Pretti, both of whom were U.S. citizens engaging in protests at the time of their deaths.
The two federal agents who opened fire on Pretti on January 24 were been placed on administrative leave, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed via USA TODAY.
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