2026.01.29

ICE

Trump’s border czar suggests a possible drawdown in Minnesota but only after ‘cooperation’
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan says immigration enforcement will reduce the number of officers in Minnesota.
By Giovanna Dell'Orto and Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/trumps-border-czar-suggests-a-possible-drawdown-in-minnesota-but-only-after-cooperation/

“If Minnesota officials try to prosecute the federal agents who recently killed two people in Minneapolis, they’ll face steep obstacles from a century-old Supreme Court precedent — one that helped sink a similar case just a few years ago,” according to Politico. “The 2017 shooting of Bijan Ghaisar by two U.S. Park Police officers in a Northern Virginia neighborhood — and the protracted legal battles that followed — may be the best preview of what Minnesota officials can expect if they pursue criminal charges against federal immigration agents. And the same legal theory that stymied Virginia’s prosecution may also block Minnesota’s.” 
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/28/minnesota-ice-shootings-deaths-prosecution-00753301

ICE ends surge in Maine as border czar pledges to keep operation in Minnesota
Tom Homan acknowledges immigration enforcement needs ‘certain improvements’, without offering any details
Cate Brown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/ice-ends-surge-maine-minnesota-continues

Videos show altercation between Alex Pretti and federal officers 11 days before he was killed
Three newly discovered videos show the Minneapolis ICU nurse being tackled by federal agents in a prior confrontation
Sam Levin and Robert Mackey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/alex-pretti-shooting-11-days-before-federal-officers-clash ( Read more... )