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Walz meets with Homan, agrees to ongoing dialogue

Gov. Walz and ICE official Homan agreed to ongoing talks after a fatal shooting during immigration enforcement and called for impartial investigations and fewer federal agents.

  • On Jan. 27, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz met Tom Homan, White House-designated 'border czar' for Minneapolis, and they agreed to maintain an ongoing dialogue about enforcement operations.
  • Operation Metro Surge, launched December, has coincided with multiple deadly encounters including the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti Saturday and large protests during 'ICE Out' day Friday.
  • President Donald Trump recalled Greg Bovino and installed Tom Homan, Trump's designated border czar, who will report directly to Trump and meet Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Walz assigned the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as liaison to Homan.
  • Walz said he had a productive call with President Donald Trump on Monday, and some Border Patrol agents, including Greg Bovino, were expected to leave Minnesota imminently.
  • Democratic senators have threatened to block Department of Homeland Security funding unless the White House political team agrees to broad ICE reforms, risking a government shutdown starting this weekend.
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Tim Walz met with Tom Homan. After days of controversy over the death of civilian Alex Jeffrey Pretti during a federal operation, the governor of Minnesota received the Trump administration’s ‘borderzar’. According to reports from Walz’s office, who recently announced that he would not seek a third term in 2026, the meeting was positive and both agreed to engage in a ‘continuous dialogue’ to lower tensions between the White House and the North S…

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Donald Trump won the U.S. elections with the promise to expel millions of “illegal criminals” from the country, focusing his offensive on “the worst of the worst,” but in the process he arrested, deported and even killed U.S. citizens. Now that this discretion has generated widespread rejection of the population, with the focus on the Democratic Minneapolis, the president has stepped back to relax the crisis and discharged responsibilities.

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KARE broke the news in Minneapolis, United States on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
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