Homan Is Trying — and Failing — to Save Face in Minneapolis

Operation Metro Surge, the aggressive and legally dubious immigration enforcement campaign that has upended life in Minnesota since December, was supposed to be the most powerful example yet of the mass deportations President Donald Trump has been promising since he first ran for the White House more than a decade ago. Instead, it has turned into one of his biggest political humiliations.

On Thursday, border czar Tom Homan said that the administration would pull most of its 3,000 immigration agents out of Minneapolis and St. Paul as of next week. “A significant drawdown has already been underway this week,” he said, “and will continue.”