Effective immediately, 700 federal immigration officers will leave Minnesota following “unprecedented cooperation” from state and county officials, border czar Tom Homan announced Wednesday morning.  

The “increase in unprecedented collaboration” at the local level means fewer federal agents are needed to make arrests there, Homan explained.

About 2,000 federal immigration agents will stay in Minnesota to arrest illegal aliens. They will remain focused on apprehending illegal aliens with criminal records, but “if you’re in the country illegally, you are not off the table,” the border czar said during the press conference in Minneapolis.  

President Donald Trump deployed Homan to Minneapolis about 10 days ago to oversee the immigration enforcement........

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