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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump Wants to 'De-escalate' in Minneapolis. Will Democrats Help?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"Just give us your criminals," Donald Trump says he told Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, and could this be a starting point for compromise? Yet the local jail, run by Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt, doesn't honor ICE detainers, and Minneapolis has a broad "sanctuary" law that bans police from helping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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is minneapolis seeing the first signs of a thaw? President Trump says he wants to de-escalate a little bit, while Governor Tim

0:46.8

Walls calls the recently arrived borders are a professional, though the terms of any compromise

0:51.9

remain elusive in the sanctuary city of Minneapolis.

0:56.3

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the

1:01.1

journal's opinion pages, editorial board member Colin Levy, and columnist Alicia Finley. A change in

1:07.6

leadership for the federal immigration enforcement effort in Minneapolis seems to be starting to make some difference.

1:14.9

That's President Trump's Bordersar Tom Holman, who was given the point position after the awful killing of Alex Preddy over the weekend.

1:22.9

Let's start with a clip of Governor Tim Walls describing his recent meeting with the newly arrived at Mr.

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Holman.

1:29.6

Tom Holman's a professional, which is a lot more than Bovino and in Christy Knoem.

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But look, I think the thing we said is we're very clear about this, that we need these folks out of Minnesota,

1:41.2

and we need justice for Renee Good and for Alex and those were those

1:47.3

were things that we came with I think the thing that I'm most concerned about is the tone was

1:51.3

different there was a tone shift I wish it was because of the horrific you know shooting that

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