--- title: Homan vows to continue Minneapolis operation, but says it will be ‘safer’ | TIME description: After mounting public outcry over two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the hands of federal immigration officials, evidence of indiscriminate stops of U.S. citizens, and widespread allegations of unconstitutional search and seizure violations, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser says he has requested plans to withdraw some of the thousands of federal immigration officers in Minnesota. But immigration agents will continue making arrests in Minnesota, Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan told reporters in Minneapolis on Thursday. “We are not going to surrender our mission at all, we're just going to do it smarter,” he said. canonical: https://time.com/video/ZgD6L2bY/ og:title: Homan vows to continue Minneapolis operation, but says it will be ‘safer’ og:description: After mounting public outcry over two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the hands of federal immigration officials, evidence of indiscriminate stops of U.S. citizens, and widespread allegations of unconstitutional search and seizure violations, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser says he has requested plans to withdraw some of the thousands of federal immigration officers in Minnesota. But immigration agents will continue making arrests in Minnesota, Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan told reporters in Minneapolis on Thursday. “We are not going to surrender our mission at all, we're just going to do it smarter,” he said. og:url: https://time.com/video/ZgD6L2bY/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZgD6L2bY/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Homan vows to continue Minneapolis operation, but says it will be ‘safer’ twitter:description: After mounting public outcry over two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the hands of federal immigration officials, evidence of indiscriminate stops of U.S. citizens, and widespread allegations of unconstitutional search and seizure violations, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser says he has requested plans to withdraw some of the thousands of federal immigration officers in Minnesota. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Homan vows to continue Minneapolis operation, but says it will be ‘safer’ [Watch (HLS stream): Homan vows to continue Minneapolis operation, but says it will be ‘safer’](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZgD6L2bY.m3u8) (1:16)  _Published 2026-01-29. After mounting public outcry over two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the hands of federal immigration officials, evidence of indiscriminate stops of U.S. citizens, and widespread allegations of unconstitutional search and seizure violations, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser says he has requested plans to withdraw some of the thousands of federal immigration officers in Minnesota. But immigration agents will continue making arrests in Minnesota, Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan told reporters in Minneapolis on Thursday. “We are not going to surrender our mission at all, we're just going to do it smarter,” he said._ --- Jan 29, 2026 6:16 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Administration announces end to surge in immigration enforcement in Minneapolis](/video/8m0zxwC5/) ### Trump Administration announces end to surge in immigration enforcement in Minneapolis [White House border czar to pull 700 immigration agents from Minneapolis](/video/bLfnCrJx/) ### White House border czar to pull 700 immigration agents from Minneapolis [Acting Immigration Chief Thomas Homan Blames Immigrant Parents for Border Separations](/video/0H4CXM9L/) ### Acting Immigration Chief Thomas Homan Blames Immigrant Parents for Border Separations --- ## Transcript But we're going to force immigration law for the people of saying we're here to surrender our authority in the mission of enforcing immigration law. You are wrong. We're going to do target enforcement operations, and we're going to prioritize the public safety threats and national security threats. Nothing's ever perfect, and anything can be improved on. And what we've been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient by the book. No agency organization is perfect. And President Trump and I, along with others in the administration, have recognized that certain improvements could and should be made. The hostile rhetoric and dangerous threats and hate must stop. And we all agreed to that. All everybody here today. We got we gotta stop the rhetoric, the hateful rhetoric that has caused an increase in assaults, that is caused because of that, have to send security teams out with arrest teams which search the city with additional resources because of the rhetoric, because of the threats, because of the assaults, again, with the agreements we've achieved in agreements where the rhetoric dropping down that allows us to pull more agents out once we feel the environment safer. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Homan vows to continue Minneapolis operation, but says it will be ‘safer’","description":"After mounting public outcry over two fatal shootings in Minneapolis at the hands of federal immigration officials, evidence of indiscriminate stops of U.S. citizens, and widespread allegations of unconstitutional search and seizure violations, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser says he has requested plans to withdraw some of the thousands of federal immigration officers in Minnesota.\n\nBut immigration agents will continue making arrests in Minnesota, Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan told reporters in Minneapolis on Thursday. “We are not going to surrender our mission at all, we're just going to do it smarter,” he said.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZgD6L2bY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-01-29T18:13:11.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZgD6L2bY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/ZgD6L2bY/","duration":"PT1M16S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/ZgD6L2bY/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```