Hundreds of federal immigration agents will leave Minnesota.

That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Thursday, February 5th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

After weeks of violent confrontations and the fatal shootings by officers of two U.S. citizens,

700 immigration and border agents are departing the Minneapolis area.

That's according to Tom Homan.

He's President Donald Trump's border czar.

Trump dispatched Homan to Minnesota after the killing of Alex Pretti last month.

The administration initially accused Pretti of being a domestic terrorist.

That reaction sparked outrage in the city and beyond.

Homan spoke at a news conference in Minneapolis yesterday.

My goal with the support of President Trump is to achieve a complete drawdown and then this surge as soon as we can.

But that is largely contingent upon the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ICE

and its federal partners that we're seeing in the community.

The withdrawal so far shrinks the federal footprint in and around Minneapolis from about

3,000 agents to 2,300. That's a significant drawdown, but it's still a much larger number

than the 80 agents who were in the area before the surge began in December. The Minneapolis

operation has been the Trump administration's largest immigration crackdown yet.

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