Trump sends Border Patrol Commissioner Homan to Minnesota | EUROtoday

As of: January 26, 2026 5:10 p.m

After the deadly capturing by ICE forces in Minneapolis, US President Trump despatched his border safety officer Homan to the area. He is tasked with overseeing operations as protests develop.

After the deadly capturing of a nurse by US immigration authorities ICE, President Donald Trump despatched the previous appearing head of ICE Tom Homan to the US state of Minnesota.

He ought to arrive there later within the day, the president introduced on his Truth Social platform. Homan is “tough but fair” and can report on to him, Trump continued. Homan has by no means been deployed on this area, Trump mentioned, however he “knows and likes a lot of people” there.

Homan is taken into account a hardliner

Government spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt added that Homan ought to monitor the operations on website. In one other publish, Leavitt wrote that Homan’s mission was to proceed to arrest the “most dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”

Homan is the Trump administration’s border safety commissioner and is tasked with implementing Trump’s deportation insurance policies. He is taken into account a hardliner. After the deadly capturing of 37-year-old Renée Good – additionally in Minneapolis – by an ICE worker at first of January, he referred to as for constant motion by ICE, which must be continued “without apology.”

Trump praises the work of the emergency companies

Homan’s posting follows huge public outrage over the weekend’s occasions. On Saturday morning, 37-year-old US citizen Alex Pretti was killed by photographs fired by emergency companies in Minneapolis. The US authorities portrays the deadly shootings as self-defense.

US border safety officer Gregory Bovino defended the emergency companies with provocative statements. The victims had been the border guards, he informed the US information channel CNN, referring to the allegation that Alex Pretti had threatened the emergency companies earlier than he was killed.

Tense ambiance in Minnesota

The incident and the Trump administration’s response to it led to indignant protests in Minnesota, a few of which resulted in violent clashes between demonstrators and emergency companies. Politicians from the opposition Democrats are calling for complete info and an finish to the deportation raids in Minneapolis, by which the border guard works with the immigration police ICE.

Trump introduced a evaluate of the incident in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. He signaled his willingness to withdraw the ICE forces from the area sooner or later. “At some point we will go,” Trump informed the newspaper, however didn’t give a selected timetable. The emergency companies did a “phenomenal job”.

Federal Government seems reserved

The German federal authorities didn’t need to touch upon the developments in Minneapolis. A authorities spokesman in Berlin merely mentioned that that they had full confidence within the US judiciary to clear up the incident.

With a view to the upcoming World Cup within the USA, he added that it was as much as the respective associations – i.e. the German Football Association (DFB) or the world affiliation Fifa – whether or not to participate within the event or follow it. Because of developments within the USA, there have been remoted calls to boycott the event arising in the summertime.