Border Czar Points to ‘Draw Down Plan’ for Immigration Officials in Minneapolis
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:34.4 | Here's your midday brief for Thursday, January 29th. I'm Pierre Biennames for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.6 | The White House Borders are dispatched to reset the Trump administration's mission in Minneapolis |
| 0:45.1 | says he's working on a plan to reduce the immigration enforcement presence there. Tom Homan said |
| 0:50.7 | today that the federal government could do more to make the operation, quote, |
| 0:56.0 | safer, more efficient by the book. |
| 1:03.4 | He says federal immigration officials will go back to conducting targeted operations that make people with criminal records a priority. The operation has been broader, with patrols sweeping streets looking for people to arrest. |
| 1:10.1 | The chemicals company, Dow, is cutting 4,500 employees with the aim of cutting costs and relying more on |
| 1:16.5 | artificial intelligence and automation. Dow currently employs more than 34,000 people. |
| 1:22.3 | The cuts will result in $1.1 billion to $1.5 billion in one-time charges. |
| 1:29.9 | Dow also said today that its quarterly loss widened because of lower revenue and higher costs. And federal prosecutors have indicted |
| 1:35.6 | First Brands founder Patrick James and his brother Edward, a former First Brands executive, on |
| 1:41.8 | charges of defrauding lenders. The Auto Parts company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year in an implosion that rattled |
| 1:48.7 | credit markets. A representative for Patrick James said he denied the charges, while lawyers |
| 1:54.2 | for Edward James had no immediate comment. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us |
| 1:59.4 | make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. |
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