Minnesota Democrat on Homan De-Escalation Remarks: ‘More Conciliatory Words, but No Detail’

Minnesota seeks Court intervention as Ellison warns of “unprecedented” federal immigration surge

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison warned this week that the state is navigating “uncharted territory” as it confronts what he described as the largest single deployment of immigration agents in U.S. history—an operation he says has already resulted in multiple…

Tom Homan is not the adult in the room

Tom Homan, White House border czar, during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St. Paul, Minnesota, US, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. Homan said the Trump administration will scale down operations in Minnesota and conduct targeted anti-immigration actions. Photographer: Ben Brewer/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Bloomberg via Getty Images When President Donald Trump announced that border czar Tom Homan would be taking o…

Minnesota Attorney General Ellison denies making any ICE agreement deal with border czar Homan

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison disputes border czar Tom Homan's claims about a new ICE notification agreement for county jails.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Homan: ‘I did not negotiate’

WASHINGTON – White House border czar Tom Homan’s conciliatory tone masked the fact that he is asking for a quid pro quo from Minnesota to ramp down “Operation Metro Surge,” the immigrant crackdown in the state. Perhaps the most important ask from Homan during his talks with state officials centers on the issue of “detainers.” Those are requests from federal immigration agents to state prisons and local jails to hold undocumented inmates after th…

Minnesota Democrat on Homan de-escalation remarks: ‘More conciliatory words, but no detail’

Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said border czar Tom Homan’s press conference in Minnesota Thursday morning did not provide the information she was looking for, including when federal immigration authorities will leave the North Star State. “It was more conciliatory words, but no detail. And I’m looking for information about when troops are leaving,” Smith told…