Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said \u200bon Tuesday he expected the federal immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump’s administration \u200bin his state may end within \u2060days, after conversations with Trump administration officials. Trump’s crackdown has faced criticism from local officials and human rights groups \u200bover what they say \u200cis a violation of due process and legal rights. Minnesota has also seen large-scale protests after federal immigration officers last month fatally shot U.S. \u200bcitizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The videos of the shootings sparked outrage across the country. Walz said he spoke on Monday with Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and on \u200cTuesday with \u200cthe Republican leader’s chief \u200bof staff Susie Wiles. “Minnesota has asked that this surge of folks leave. I spoke with Tom Homan yesterday. I spoke with Susie Wiles, the president’s chief of staff this morning,” Walz said in a press briefing. “We’re very much \u200bin a ‘trust but verify’ mode. B
ut it’s my expectation – and we will hear more from them I think in the next day or so – that we are talking days, not weeks \u200band months, of this occupation,” he said. The Department of Homeland Security, of which the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is a part, referred questions to the White House, which did not respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration deployed about 3,000 federal immigration agents in Minnesota by \u200cthe end of January and Homan said last week about 700 would be withdrawn. “It would be my hope that Mr. Homan goes out before Friday and announces that this \u2060thing is done, and \u200bthey’re bringing (it) down and they’re bringing (it) down in days. That would be my expectation,” Walz said. Trump has cast his actions as aiming to tackle fraud and improve domestic security. Rights groups say the crackdown \u2060has created a fearful environment, \u2060particularly for minority communities like \u2060the Somali community in Minnesota that Trump adminis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said \u200bon Tuesday he expected the federal immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump’s administration \u200bin his state may end within \u2060days, after conversations with Trump administration officials. Trump’s crackdown has faced criticism from local officials and human rights groups \u200bover what they say \u200cis a violation of due process and legal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n