Border czar Tom Homan has arrived in Minnesota to oversee the immigration enforcement operation there and “hopefully” pioneer a model that the Trump administration could use in other sanctuary states, an immigration expert explains.  

Minnesota is a “sanctuary state,” according to the Department of Justice, meaning state and local law enforcement do not cooperate with federal immigration officials.

Homan arrived in Minnesota on Tuesday and met with Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, both Democrats. The negotiations could produce “some sort of agreement that could serve as a model for other sanctuary jurisdictions around the country,” Cooper Smith, director of homeland security and immigration at America First Policy Institute, tells The Daily Signal.  

The administration needs to find a way for immigration enforcement operations to continue, something for which “the American people voted,” Smith said, “while at the same time working with sanctuary jurisdictions to ensure limited public safety threats, limited violence and mayhem........

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