ICE to Withdraw 700 Officers, Citing Smarter Enforcement (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Given this increase in unprecedented collaboration, and as a result of the need for less law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I have announced effective immediately we will draw down 700 people effective today. 700 law enforcement personnel. Again, this is smarter enforcement, not less enforcement. My goal with the support of President Trump is to achieve a complete drawdown and end this surge as soon as we can. But that is largely contingent upon the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ICE and its federal partners that we're seeing in the community. We want to get back to the original footprint, the Minnesota footprint of what ICE officers looked like before this operation.