President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, is working to “regain law and order” in Minnesota by reducing the number of federal immigration enforcement officers there (under certain conditions) and boosting cooperation with local officials.

“President Trump wants this fixed,” Homan said Thursday morning in Minneapolis. “And I’m going to fix it.”
- Trump sent Homan to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents on January 24 — two weeks after the killing of Renee Good, also 37.

The negotiation: Homan, and other Trump officials, have said they are willing to remove federal agents from Minnesota if Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey specifically give them “access to undocumented immigrants who are in state prisons and county jails.” But, the Minnesota Department of Corrections claims they already do that.

“I do not want to hear that everything that’s been done here has been perfect,” Homan said. “Nothing’s perfect, anything can be improved on, and what we’ve been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient, by the book. The mission is going to improve because of the changes we’re making internally.”

COUNTIES VS. STATE
Homan argues that the state needs to transfer undocumented immigrants to ICE while they are still in local jails — arguing it would be safer and would require fewer agents on the streets. At the heart of the issue is county-by-county ordinances — not an unwillingness to keep undocumented criminals off streets.

PRISONS: Minnesota law requires the state to notify ICE when a felony-convicted immigrant is set to be released. Last year prison officials handed 84 inmates over to ICE after they finished their sentences.
- An MPR News review found that most of the “worst of the worst” criminals highlighted by DHS were already transferred from Minnesota prisons to ICE custody before the current surge began.
JAILS: While prisons are state or federally run, jails are locally operated.
- Some jails work with ICE on deportations, or alert the agency before releases. Some don’t. The state’s largest county, Hennepin County, does not share information with ICE as a matter of policy.
- And jails cannot hold a person beyond a certain point, Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell says: “That’s the fundamental issue. There is not a lack of cooperation. There is just some legal boundaries.”

As for local police, Minneapolis officers can manage crowd control at immigration raids, but city law bars them from enforcing federal immigration actions.

NEW POLLING FINDS ICE SUPPORT FALLING
A new Fox News poll taken from Jan 23-26 (Pretti was fatally killed January 24) shows a clear uptick in dissatisfaction with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement: nearly 60% of U.S. voters now say ICE’s deportation efforts are "too aggressive," up from about 50% last summer.

The shift is especially sharp among independents (71% in January; 49% in July), moderates (70% in January; 51% in July), and non-MAGA Republicans (49% in January; 26% in July). Among Trump voters, the share calling ICE “too aggressive” rose from 17% to 26%.

Mo News asked our audience for their reaction to the new polling, and for comment on the state of the U.S. We received thousands of DMs, broken down by self-identified political groups. Here’s a look at some of those messages: