While White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday morning the federal immigration surge in Minnesota would be ending, state officials were facing tough questions about the circumstances that led to that crackdown in the first place. Those officials, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and the state’s corrections commissioner, Paul Schnell, in turn blasted the Trump administration for the way it has conducted itself in their state. Walz said the surge did serious economic damage to the state and said he would seek repayment. “You don’t get to break things and then just leave without doing something about it.”And while Homan was speaking in Minneapolis, top Minnesota officials testifying in Washington said the damage had already been done. Johnson said it was no wonder that ICE officers were on “hair-trigger alert” considering the number of people who opposed them and sometimes confronted them during operations.

Source: CNN February 13, 2026 22:18 UTC