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The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan in Minneapolis: "Effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people effective today."

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This is a huge win for Trump; if the predicate of the drawdown is that local Minnesota law enforcement is now working and cooperating with ICE, this means that Trump effectively ended Minneapolis sanctuary city positioning.

Good point, I agree that Tim Walz and that mayor of Minneapolis guy aren’t particularly trustworthy, especially when it comes to this immigration enforcement issue, but I assume Trump must have gotten some solid concessions and regards, if they don’t play ball ICE can just ramp up operations again.

Did you not just see what happened to WaPo? Come on man. *Support* our institutions; particularly the one hit for and for 10 long years. Otherwise you’re inadvertently doing trumps work for him. The headline is fact & the news. Reporters report facts and news. We pushes for change and got some

I dunno, we are only mad at the MSM because the headline works with idiot voters. In a parallel world the MSM says, "25% reduction in X" for something that Dems do and people treat it as a huge backtrack, 'Dems in disarray' everywhere. Instead of focusing on the 75% that remains.

This is still 80 million dollars ($40000 x 2000 agents) of our taxpayer money still being spent on these hooligan ICE agents just in Minnesota. I’m sure we as taxpayers would like the money spent on many other things vs terrorizing people with their lawless actions.

Another translation.......we stole so much of the appropriated money, we can't pay 700 dumbfuck mercenaries so we're sending them to babysit cars in a hangar for minimum wage or to just go home.

They could’ve covered “hateful rhetoric” comparing invectives thrown at 🧊 to 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧’s thrown at immigrants, democrats, female journalists, etc.

Yeah, but it won't hold. DHS goons can't help but be assholes on camera, which creates viral content the media can't bring themselves to ignore. Coverage of Minnesota's occupation is a self-sustaining cycle.

One of the most disillusioning aspects of this now 10-year hellscape is discovering what a bunch of weak-willed, corporate suck-ups our entire mainstream media ecosystem is filled with. They should be ashamed of themselves. But they're not.

All they did today is pull back SOME of the 800 additional agents they sent after the initial 2000 caused such a disruption initially. Let's not celebrate a "reduction" that happened after an increase that leaves us at higher levels than the initial deployment.

They previously claimed 3,000 agents, so a reduction of 700 should still leave 2,300. Also, for all we know, this is empty rhetoric, like most things out of this regime. How do we know they aren't just keeping 3,000 there & simply lying about a reduction?

Mr Homan, why are you still keeping more than 10 times the number of ICE resources that have typically been based in Minnesota? Why don’t you move more to FL and TX which have 10-15x the number of undocumented immigrants?

It's a little difficult to know the number 700 is being subtracted from. There have been estimates of perhaps as many as 4-5K immigration agents in MN. All of which missises the point. It's not the number but the conduct that matters. 1000 so called agents that routinely break the law ...

We have no press! They never point out how illegal any of the republicans are. They keep asking if it’s legal instead of researching and reporting it is all illegal! No other President has received a pass like this!

The timing was suspect. Trump hated that Morning Joe blasted ICE tactics repeatedly. Homan needed to talk for 30 minutes and open foe questions to shut Joe Scarborough down.

Not only that, the media seems to be credulously parroting Homan's line that they can partially withdraw because local officials are FINALLY cooperating with them. I've seen DHS's deceptive framing reported on local news, CNN, and several newspapers.

Minneapolis Police Department currently has ~600 sworn officers. DHS has deployed over 2,400 federal agents and officers to the Minneapolis area as part of a major immigration enforcement operation called Operation Metro Surge. Homan, GFY.

DISGUSTING that the mainstream media is becoming the FAKE NEWS that they repeatedly claimed they would never become. The American People needs REAL JOURNALISM to return and, really, escape the nasty grip of Dear Loser Trump's Billionaire Oligarch (BO) buddies and pedophile protectors.

Or LESS THAN 1/3 of all ICE agents in Minnesota who are attacking people on sidewalks, shooting Americans in broad daylight, and grabbing people and imprisoning them without due process, will leave to wreak havoc elsewhere?

Another day, another 1000 misleading headlines #SaneWashing Trump and looking past regime's criminality. How about headline: "At huge cost to taxpayers, Trump maintaining 1000s of ICE / CBP in Minneapolis". Subtitle: "No end in sight to ICE / CBP criminal acts"

i've never seen a group of people more committed to not getting it than the folks in this country that cover national politics for a living.

And the Democrats keep fucking giving these fasiast pricks money. Shut the money off. I don't care if we all starve. The bases of our society are free and fair elections. Don't give them a nickel. You cannot negotiate with these people.

And did any of those useless reporters say "Mr. Homan, could you please explain why you were caught on camera taking a $50,000 bribe? Why were the charges never dropped? Did you keep the $50,000? Are you a crook?" He's a crook. The most blatantly crooked of all of them.

They has 3000 before, now everyone’s saying 2000, simple math says 2300 which is a significant difference. We shouldn’t let convenient rounding obscure the reallty 3000 - 700 does not equal 2000