ICE to reduce numbers in Minnesota, but operations go on

The Trump administration said it was drawing down the number of immigration enforcement officers deployed in Minnesota, following weeks of unrest in Minneapolis where 2 people have been killed in altercations with US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents.

Tom Homan, whose official title is White House "border czar," told reporters that 700 out of around 3,000 federal officers deployed around the upper Midwest state will be withdrawn "immediately."

Homan said that state and local officials have agreed to cooperate with ICE by handing in arrested immigrants, which he called an "increase in unprecedented collaboration" that would need fewer "public safety officers to do this work" in a "safer environment."