Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Monday that “some federal agents” would leave the city, a decision that came after he spoke with President Donald Trump on the phone.
“I expressed how much Minneapolis has benefited from our immigrant communities and was clear that my main ask is that Operation Metro Surge needs to end,” Frey wrote in a statement on X. “The president agreed the present situation can’t continue.”
The removal of some federal officers is the latest of several high-profile changes made by Trump to the federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign in the Twin Cities area — and comes on the heels of a fatal shooting involving a Border Patrol agent Saturday that sparked widespread protests.