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Homan vows 'massive changes' and ICE drawdown if Minnesota officials cooperate

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The Trump administration's top immigration enforcement official says "massive changes" are coming to Minnesota, including plans to eventually pull some of the federal agents deployed there. But state and local officials are demanding bigger changes. Geoff Bennett discussed the legal and constitutional questions with Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor now teaching at Georgetown's Law Center. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the NewsHour. The Trump administration's top immigration enforcement official

0:06.0

says massive changes are coming to Minnesota, including plans to eventually pull out some of the thousands of federal agents currently deployed there.

0:15.0

And despite the administration's plan to ease some of the tensions, state and local officials, and even the courts are demanding bigger changes.

0:23.6

After weeks of tension, protests and clashes in the Twin Cities and the shooting deaths

0:29.6

of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents, Tom Homan, President Trump's border

0:34.7

czar today, said he's working on a possible drawdown

0:37.7

plan in Minnesota, and he acknowledged missteps.

0:41.5

Yes, I said it, draw down the number of people here.

0:44.4

Nothing's ever perfect, anything can be improved on, and what we've been working on is making

0:50.0

this operation safer, more efficient by the book. But Homan added any reduction in the roughly

0:57.8

3,000 federal officers in Minnesota would only come with cooperation from state officials,

1:03.3

which Homan acknowledged was occurring. And he said there would be zero tolerance for protesters

1:08.5

who assault or interfere with officers.

1:10.9

We are not surrendering the president's mission in immigration enforcement.

1:14.7

Let's make that clear.

1:16.2

As we see that cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen.

1:21.6

It comes as new video surfaced of Alex Preddy, one of the two U.S. citizens killed in Minneapolis

1:26.5

by federal agents. In the video taken 11 days before Preddy was one of the two U.S. citizens killed in Minneapolis by federal agents.

1:28.0

In the video, taken 11 days before Preddy was shot and killed, he seemed kicking the

1:32.5

taillight off a federal vehicle before agents tackle him to the ground.

1:36.7

President Trump reposted the video on social media last night.

1:40.4

But in a meeting with his cabinet today...

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