Pray Tom Homan’s Minneapolis promises come true — – Latest News
Border czar Tom Homan’s now in Minneapolis, de-escalating the ICE wars there with some initial success — however many anti-enforcement voices throughout the nation are nonetheless pushing the opposite means.
Homan says Mayor Jacob Frey, Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison have assured him the state’s prisons and jails will begin handing over illegal-immigrant criminals to ICE, quite than releasing them back into the neighborhood.
That’ll enable Homeland Security to “start drawing down” its presence, because the feds gained’t have to enter the neighborhood to nab the “worst of the worst” (which additionally means they’re much less more likely to come throughout less-toxic unlawful migrants whom they’d then be obliged to additionally usher in).
Border czar Tom Homan speaks during a information convention about ongoing immigration enforcement operations on January 29, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Getty Images
It additionally vastly reduces the alternatives for “ICE Watch” extremists to intervene en masse, inflicting harmful chaos because the lawmen attempt to do their jobs.
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Yet Homan additionally pointedly famous that the drawdown “could happen even more if the hateful rhetoric and impediments stop.”
Hmm: The identical day, Frey blasted ICE’s presence in Minneapolis as an “occupation” and warned the “endurance of the republic” is at stake, thundering that Americans “can’t back down” from combating in opposition to ICE.
That is, the mayor is urging people throughout the nation to intervene with federal brokers implementing federal law.
The feckless Walz strengthened that time by asking if occasions in Minneapolis are a “Fort Sumter” second for the nation; we don’t suppose he realized that put him on the aspect of the Confederates who attacked the federal authorities in South Carolina and so started the Civil War.
Recall that Walz and Frey bear important blame for the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti since they ordered native law enforcement to remain away when activists sought to frustrate the feds — a step dramatically more radical than merely telling cops to not help ICE with its enforcement work.
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Elsewhere, the “resistance” posturing has gotten far worse:
Far-left Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner this week threatened to slap ICE brokers with state prices after President Donald Trump leaves workplace, so the prez can’t pardon them: “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will.”
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes claimed her state’s Stand Your Ground law offers civilians the best to shoot masked ICE brokers on their property in the event that they really feel endangered.
Spoiler: It doesn’t — states can’t legalize attacking the feds for doing their job; is Mayes additionally selecting up the Confederate trigger?
Homan additionally vowed, “Justice is coming” for the far-left teams funding and coordinating assaults on ICE and Border Patrol brokers — which factors to one more peril most Americans aren’t but conscious of.
Groups like ICE Watch are essentially the most seen half of very scary networks organized in paramilitary fashion, compiling databases of suspected ICE license plates, utilizing central dispatchers to ship prompt “protest” crowds to intervene with federal operations and even attempting to evict brokers from their motels.
Whether or not the Goods and Prettis on the ground understand it, these aggressive ways are designed to impress harmful confrontations that undermine public assist for law enforcement.
For all of the errors Homeland Security made in Minneapolis, Homan is doing his best to de-escalate.
We hope the politicians and activists on the opposite aspect observe go well with.
