Evening Wire: “Metro Surge” Moves Out & Bondi Defends Investigation | 2.12.26
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tom Homan wraps up Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. |
| 0:06.1 | More details emerge on the trans-identifying shooter in Canada, and Attorney General Pam |
| 0:11.4 | Bondi defends her department's handling of Epstein evidence. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Daily Wire, Executive Editor John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. |
| 0:18.3 | It's Thursday, February 12th. |
| 0:20.0 | This is Evening Wire. The end is near for the Trump |
| 0:23.3 | administration's Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. Daily Wire immigration reporter Jenny Tear has the story. |
| 0:30.4 | White House Borders are Tom Holman announced at a Thursday press conference that many of the thousands |
| 0:35.5 | of ICE and Border Patrol personnel sent to the |
| 0:38.2 | Twin Cities from other areas of the country will soon return to their home offices. Federal authorities |
| 0:44.0 | made nearly 4,000 arrests during the operation. Holman said the operation has been successful, which |
| 0:50.1 | led to a significant drop in criminal illegal immigrants roaming the streets, |
| 0:58.0 | quote, unprecedented levels of coordination from local officials and a decrease in anti-ice agitator activity. |
| 1:01.6 | Federal authorities also tracked 3,364 missing migrant children |
| 1:06.7 | who previously crossed the border alone. |
| 1:09.6 | Homan also pushed back on reports claiming that ICE is, quote, backing down. |
| 1:13.9 | You are simply wrong. |
| 1:15.4 | Look at the data. |
| 1:16.9 | Record number of arrest and deportations. |
| 1:19.0 | And we'll continue that effort. |
| 1:21.3 | More details have emerged about the trans-identifying Canadian high school dropout who killed |
| 1:26.0 | eight people and injured dozens in British Columbia |
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