Border czar Tom Homan says he may withdraw some immigration agents from Minnesota

NPR | By Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,

Steve Inskeep

Published January 30, 2026 at 4:48 AM EST

After border czar Tom Homan's remarks that he's in talks about a possible drawdown of federal immigration agents, Minnesota is in a strange limbo. What do people make of the latest developments?

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