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Leadership changes in Minnesota follow tensions among agencies over immigration enforcement tactics

Last week, White House border czar Tom Homan announced enforcement in Minnesota was unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, streamlining operations and establishing a unified chain of command.
Months of internal grumbling and infighting among ICE enforcement and removal operations and Border Patrol officials preceded the leadership change, and as Border Patrol influence grew, the administration reassigned at least half of ICE's field directors.
ICE has long practiced investigative, narrowly tailored 'targeted enforcement' since 2003, contrasting its slow, methodical pace with Border Patrol’s rapid Chicago rooftop helicopter raid sweeps.
On Thursday, The Associated Press observed an ICE officer tail a car and release the driver after realizing he was not their target, despite ongoing heavy ICE presence in the Twin Cities.
Support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sliding, and Democrats in Congress are increasingly pressing to rein in Department of Homeland Security enforcement.

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