Trump 'border tsar' arrives in Minnesota
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The new head of the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, Tom Homan, has met the state governor as the White House attempts to address the criticism following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
Also in the programme: Spain has approved a plan to grant legal status to an estimated 500,000 migrants; and tennis star Coco Gauff calls for privacy after being filmed smashing her racket.
(Photo: Tom Homan, the new head of the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. |
| 0:12.1 | It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Tim Franks. |
| 0:17.3 | In a moment, we'll be heading to Minnesota as President Trump's new head of its immigration enforcement operation there arrives in Minneapolis. |
| 0:27.6 | Also on the program, we'll be hearing about a big tech trial in Los Angeles with social media companies facing potential peril. |
| 0:37.3 | And we'll hear more testimony from Iran |
| 0:39.2 | on the aftermath of the government crackdown on protests this month. |
| 0:42.7 | It's mid-morning in Baheshda Zahra, the larger cemetery in Tehran. |
| 0:47.5 | Every time they brought a coffin out, people started cheering and clapping. |
| 0:52.6 | Most bodies brought for burial were people under 30 and 40 years old. |
| 0:57.4 | That day, they must have delivered 30 bodies that morning. And they also brought bodies of a newlywed couple. |
| 1:05.7 | More on that in the second half of our program. We're beginning, though, in Minneapolis, where it's still |
| 1:10.9 | ferociously cold, but there's a sense that perhaps in spirit, some ground may be unfreezing, |
| 1:18.0 | that there have been face-to-face talks between one of the Trump administration's top |
| 1:21.1 | immigration officials and the top democratic politicians in the state, that there are |
| 1:25.2 | expectations that some of the paramilitary-style immigration agents deploy to the state that there are expectations that some of the paramilitary style |
| 1:27.5 | immigration agents deployed to the state may leave. And that President Trump himself has |
| 1:32.7 | insisted that he wants an honest and honourable investigation, as he put it, into the killing by those |
| 1:38.2 | members of immigration and customs enforcement of a nurse on Saturday who'd been involved |
| 1:43.5 | in a confrontation with |
| 1:45.0 | those ice agents. This is what Mr. Trump had to say as he spoke to reporters in front of the |
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