Minnesota ICE live: Trump insists immigration officers stay while Homan outlines plan to ‘draw down’ agents

President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that federal immigration agents are staying in Minnesota while his border czar, Tom Homan, outlined a plan to “draw down” agents.

Homan was sent to Minnesota earlier in the week following the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, which saw Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino stand down earlier this week.

He made the argument on Thursday that if federal agents were given better access to local jails to arrest undocumented immigrants, then they would need “less agents in the street.”

“This is common-sense cooperation that allows us to draw down on the number of people we have here. Yes, I said it: draw down the number of people here because we have the efficiency, the safety of the jails and the prisons,” Homan said.

But when Trump was later asked whether he was pulling Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents out of Minnesota, the president said, “No, no. Not at all.”

Homan’s involvement in Minnesota comes amid ongoing backlash over the Trump administration’s handling of the second fatal shooting of an American at the hands of federal agents.

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