Tom Holman

So we worked on a strategic plan to reassign officers in those key locations.

Arresting a public safety threat in the safety and security of a jail is safer for the alien.

It's safer for the officer.

and safer for the community.

I think we all can agree on that.

It requires less resources for at large operations.

It just makes sense.

I'll say it again, as I've said many times, we are not asking local law enforcement to act as immigration officers.

I don't want them to be immigration officers.

We're the immigration officers.

We just want them to be cops.

We're asking law enforcement to coordinate with other law enforcement to help keep public safety risk of the communities.

At the peak of this operation, there was about 3,000 federal law enforcement officers on the ground.

Typically, before this operation, there was 150 ICE officers here in Minnesota.

Holman said that officers here in detail, they're going to go back to their home stations or other areas of the country where they're needed.

He did say, though, officers who were assigned to Minneapolis for the fraud investigations are going to stay in place until the work is done.

The decision to end Operation Metro Surge was signed off by President Trump after Holman says they got unprecedented support from local and state officials and cooperation with jails who are willing to honor those ICE detainers.

Holman took over the Minnesota operation in late January after the shooting deaths of Alex Preddy and Renee Good.

Prioritizing national security threats and public safety risks makes sense.

But I'll continue to say over and over again,