Okay, I'll believe this when I see it, but:

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
9:28 AM · Feb 12, 2026

"Border czar Tom Homan announces ICE's surge in Minnesota will conclude. Homan says the ICE drawdown in Minnesota is 'already underway this week, and will continue into the next week.'

A 'small footprint' will remain, he says. But Trump's ICE surge in Minneapolis is officially over. 'Operation Metro Surge is ending,' Homan says. ICE officers will be sent home.

Homan said he proposed ending the ICE surge in MN, and Trump 'has concurred.' "

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@_L1vY_ Same here. Someone on the ground there said yesterday that nothing had changed but the media seems to be moving on

[cjpaloma@mstdn.social]

@_L1vY_ even if true, "a small footprint" is in no way acceptable. ABOLISH ICE

Further: ALL the decision makers and players in this program of illegal mass kidnapping, assault, murder, lack of due process (etc) should be tried, convicted and sentenced to real jail time and barred from holding any positions associated with law making ever again. At minimum.

[ytscorp@mstdn.social]

@_L1vY_
Because funding is running out? Are they going to tell us why? Yes, we deserve explanations.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

Sent "home" 🤨

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
9:28 AM · Feb 12, 2026

"Homan: 'Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed.' "

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Spencer Ackerman / attackerman
9:44 AM · Feb 12, 2026

"He literally says in the clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota 'quick reaction forces' — a military term — to go after 'agitators.' Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior 'deescalation' was a ruse and ICE is still operational."

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Atrios /eschatonblog.com‬
10:20 AM · Feb 12, 2026

"Rhetorical question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators"

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

#Via Woj
@swojack
10:32 AM · Feb 12, 2026

"The official White House reason for why they even went there in the first place is supposedly to hunt for childcare fraud by nonwhites so as far as I know nobody is even pretending that ICE and CBP have anything to do with immigration enforcement/administration anymore."

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@LaNaehForaday Not enough, she still has a job, but yes

[clayrivers@mastodon.world]

@LaNaehForaday @_L1vY_

[paninid@mastodon.world]

@_L1vY_ @atrupar

This is a feint so people stop paying attention.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@LaNaehForaday Hmmmm...if they had really wanted to kill pedophiles

[fsinn@mas.to]

@_L1vY_ @swojack

From someone in Minneapolis ️
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116058263244984578

Until ICE is actually out of Minnesota, I don’t believe them that they’re leaving.

[drdrowland@fediscience.org]

@fsinn @_L1vY_ @swojack

Until homan stops mumbling I won't believe anything I hear him say

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@fsinn Yeah he admitted they're still keeping occupation forces there

[nilajones@zeroes.ca]

@_L1vY_ @atrupar

That's a big OR

[clarablackink@writing.exchange]

@_L1vY_ @fsinn I suspect it just means that they're switching tactics because the pushback is stronger than expected.

Which is different than leaving.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@clarablackink @fsinn

Yes

Mother Bones (@_L1vY_@mstdn.social)

Okay, I'll believe this when I see it, but:

Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@NilaJones "needed"