{"id":437017,"date":"2026-01-29T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:46:07","slug":"tom-homan-watch-trumps-border-tsar-speak-in-minneapolis-as-he-takes-over-immigration-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/437017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Homan: Watch Trump&#8217;s border tsar speak in Minneapolis as he takes over immigration crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis mayor and Minnesota governor continue ICE push backpublished at 12:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey pictured mid-speech with his right hand raised. He's wearing a dark blue suit, white shirt and polka-dotted red tie, two men partially visible behind him. A US flag attached to a pole stands to Frey's right in the background\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fa5eeb08-accf-42e8-9057-e316793bd973.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1305\" height=\"734\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, ReutersImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frey says he wants the police to focus on keeping people safe rather than enforcing federal immigration laws<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have been very vocal in criticising ICE and its activities in the city, calling for the immigration agency to leave the state for the last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on X yesterday, Walz said he made a promise to Alex Pretti&#8217;s parents &#8220;to continue to tell his story.<\/p>\n<p>An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a meeting with &#8220;border tsar&#8221; Tom Homan on Tuesday, Walz said the state needed &#8220;impartial investigations, the departure of federal forces, and an end to the campaign of retribution against our state&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Separately, Frey also posted on X, condemning Trump for saying the Minneapolis mayor is &#8220;playing with fire&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mayor said the job of the police is to keep people safe, &#8220;not enforce fed immigration laws. I want them preventing homicides, not hunting down a working dad who contributes to MPLS &amp; is from Ecuador&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Homan described his meeting with the pair as a &#8220;productive starting point&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minneapolis mayor and Minnesota governor continue ICE push backpublished at 12:50 GMT 12:50 GMT Image source, ReutersImage caption,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-437017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}