Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump's borders are says he's

reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota. Tom Holman says about 700

federal officers will be immediately withdrawn from the operation, but he says the crackdown in

Minnesota isn't ending and didn't give a timeline of when that might happen, as NPR's

Martin Costi explains. He said he wants to end the surge as soon as possible, but that came with a big

caveat. 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. We will not draw down on personnel

providing security for our officers. I will not let our officers be put at risk.

And that's really the rub here, because what Holman and the administration view as illegal

interference with immigration enforcement, many people in Minnesota see as their First Amendment

right to observe and protest that enforcement. Many protesters do not

want to see federal officers picking up people just on immigration violations, people who haven't

committed other serious crimes. And Homan said his priority now is immigrants with criminal records,

but he said the feds will continue to arrest those other people. NPR's Martin Costi reporting.

Leaders in Fulton County, Georgia say they filed a motion in

federal court seeking the return of 2020 election documents seized in a federal raid last week. Raul

Bally from member station WAB reports from Atlanta. Fulton County Commission Chair Rob Pitt says the

targeting of the county is about President Donald Trump not accepting his 2020 loss in Georgia and claims it was stolen specifically in the county.

This case is not only about Fulton County. It's about elections across Georgia and across the nation.

But Fulton County, make no mistake, in my opinion, we are the poster child here of all the states, all the

counties, all the cities that may involve is Fulton County, Georgia, because of the 2020

elections. Fulton County leaders are also worried the raid will be used as a pretext for the

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