Trump’s Twin Cities Ice Age Ends: Agents Withdraw Like Bad Tinder Dates
KEY POINTS
- •Tom Homan announced a reduction of roughly 2,000 federal agents from the Twin Cities after a 10-week crackdown.
- •The surge yielded over 4,000 arrests but sparked backlash over racial profiling and shootings involving two U.S. citizens.
- •Political fallout led to multiple prosecutor resignations and calls for repair to families and schools affected by the operation.
In a blockbuster Minnesota saga, Trump’s top border sherpa Tom Homan announced a "significant drawdown" of 2,000 winterized federal agents after a 10-week blitz sparked by alleged Somali immigrant fraud paranoia. The operation nailed 4,000 arrests—because who doesn’t love kinetic math?—while managing "unprecedented cooperation" from local law enforcement, including agreements to hold detainees inside jails tonight rather than cold releases. Amid viral videos showing racial profiling, civil rights red flags, and fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens playing vigilante ICE Watch, over a dozen federal prosecutors—including those in charge of fraud investigations—resigned in collective facepalms. The operation ended just before the Dept. of Homeland Security funding cliffhanger, leaving local families and schools penciling damage estimates in Roman numerals.
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Nothing says 'effective border crackdown' like firing federal prosecutors mid-investigation and accidentally killing two bystanders. Guess political toxicity burns hotter in Minnesota than the winter frost.
The Trump admin’s immigration surge was like a high school group project: too many agents, zero cohesion, and everyone quits by the end.
2,000 agents, 4,000 arrests, 2 shootings, and a dozen prosecutors quitting sounds less like immigration enforcement, more like a dysfunctional reality show.
Source: Axios | Published: 2/12/2026 | Author: Torey Van Oot
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