Trump: Walz asked to team up — Homan dispatched as Minneapolis tensions escalate

President Donald Trump mentioned he had a “superb dialog” with Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz on Monday as tensions flared in Minneapolis following the capturing of Alex Pretti on Saturday by a federal immigration officer.

“Governor Tim Walz referred to as me asking for cooperation concerning Minnesota,” Trump wrote in Fact Social on Monday. “It was an excellent name, and we really appeared to be on the identical web page. I instructed Governor Walz that I’d have Tom Homan name him, and that we’re on the lookout for all of the criminals of their possession.”

Chaos in Minnesota continued over the weekend, together with agitators confronting regulation enforcement at a lodge Sunday night. Protests and tensions elevated on Saturday after Border Patrol brokers in Minnesota fatally shot Pretti.

Federal officers say Pretti approached officers with a 9mm handgun and resisted disarmament, whereas witnesses have expressed doubt whether or not Pretti, an ICU nurse, posed a menace to officers.

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President Donald Trump mentioned he had a “superb dialog” with Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz on Monday. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Photographs)

“The Governor very respectfully understood that, and I shall be talking with him within the close to future. He was comfortable to have Tom Homan go to Minnesota, and so was I! We have now had such super SUCCESS in Washington, DC, Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and just about each different place now we have ‘touched’, and even in Minnesota crime has gone approach down, however each Governor Walz and I wish to make issues higher!” Trump continued his publish.

Walz’s workplace instructed Fox Digital on Monday that the governor had a “productive” name with Trump as he “argued that we want neutral investigations into the Minneapolis shootings involving federal brokers and that we have to scale back the variety of federal brokers in Minnesota.”

“The President agreed that he would communicate together with his Division of Homeland Safety to make sure that the Minnesota Bureau of Prison Apprehension can conduct an unbiased investigation, as would usually be the case. The President additionally agreed to discover methods to scale back the variety of federal brokers in Minnesota and work with the state in a extra coordinated method on immigration enforcement associated to violent criminals,” Walz’s workplace continued.

The governor’s workplace added that Walz “reminded” Trump that the Minnesota Division of Corrections enforces federal immigration detentions and that there’s not “a single documented occasion during which the division has launched somebody from state jail with out providing to make sure a clean switch of custody.”

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Trump introduced Monday that he would ship White Home border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota and that he’ll report on to the president.

Protesters chant and bang on trash cans whereas standing behind a makeshift barricade throughout a protest following the dying of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent earlier within the day, January 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Adam Grey/The Related Press)

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“Tom Homan will lead ICE operations on the bottom in Minnesota and coordinate with others on ongoing fraud investigations,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations.

Homan is predicted to reach in Minnesota Monday night.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan visits “Fox & Pals” at Fox Information Channel Studios on February 14, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (John Lamparski/Getty Photographs)

Trump instructed The Wall Road Journal on Sunday that his administration is “reexamining all the pieces” surrounding the case, however didn’t say whether or not the officer who shot Pretti acted appropriately.

The deadly capturing follows the deadly ICE capturing of Renee Good on January 7, which sparked widespread backlash from Democrats and different critics of the administration that Good was “murdered” by the hands of the federal government.

Walz, together with different Democratic leaders from the Gopher State, have repeatedly come underneath Trump’s ire for his or her dealing with of an ongoing high-profile fraud case that led to the federal government sending extra federal regulation enforcement officers to the Twin Cities in early January. Trump and the administration have blamed Walz and different state leaders for inflicting chaos and protests within the metropolis, saying their rhetoric has pushed agitators to confront regulation enforcement.

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“Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have whipped these rioters right into a frenzy and unleashed them to wreak havoc in Minneapolis,” White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson instructed Fox Digital earlier in January after agitators disrupted church companies in protest towards ICE on Jan. 18. “Frey and Walz must be ashamed of themselves for inciting such chaos, however the Trump administration will proceed to implement the regulation.”