MINNEAPOLIS — President Trump’s Operation Metro Surge against Minnesota, which backfired in national disapproval and disgust, is being pared back. Trump’s new on-site manager for Metro Surge, Tom Homan, announced a drawdown of 700 agents from the 3,500 ordered into Minnesota by Trump to restore order when in fact there was no disorder. Homan said the drawdown will cut the number of armed federal agents roaming Minnesota streets to 2000. To be sure, there was fuzziness in numbers. In fact there may be as many as 2,800 agents remaining. Whether the drawdown will satisfy Minnesotans was not immediately clear. ICE normally has a payroll of only 150 for its Minnesota activities. Homan, a longtime Trump ally, saved Trump some face for the partial retreat by claiming that he had negotiated an agreement with state and local to back off their resistance to Trump’s plan to deport 1 million immigrants year, including thousands in Minnesota. Said Homan: Gomansaid he had negotiated “unprecedented collaboration” from state and locl authoriteses: “The need is less federal law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment.”
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Homan. Says 700 armed federal agents from Trump’s Minnesota siege will be withdrawn immediately, Still on the streets: 2000 to 2,800 of the storm troopers that Governor Tim Walz has likened to gestapo.