The White House asserted Wednesday that President Trump is delivering on his pledge to improve public safety following the arrests of more than 4,000 “criminal illegal immigrants” since the launch of Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
“President Trump’s commonsense immigration enforcement policies are delivering the public safety results the American people demanded, with more than 4,000 dangerous criminal illegal aliens already arrested in Minnesota,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
“Democrats opened our borders and allowed vicious criminals, including murderers, rapists, gang members, and terrorists, to invade our communities,” Leavitt continued. “President Trump is reversing that horrific damage and removing these threats from our country.”
The Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota, focused on violent offenders in the Twin Cities, was launched in early December, according to the White House.
The latest milestone follows an earlier DHS announcement that it had reached 3,000 arrests in Minneapolis during the operation on Jan. 19.
A DHS spokeswoman vowed federal agents would not “back down” despite what the agency described as “coordinated attacks of violence against our law enforcement.”
“We need sanctuary politicians to cooperate with us by notifying us before releasing public safety threats back onto the streets to commit more crimes and create more victims,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “We will not back down from our mission to remove criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods.”
McLaughlin also appeared on Hannity this week to discuss the worst of the worst being taken off the streets by DHS agents.
Tricia McLaughlin blasts politicians for endangering law enforcement by demonizing DHS officers enforcing the law:
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— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) February 4, 2026
The milestone was announced the same day border czar Tom Homan said the administration is reducing its federal law enforcement footprint in Minneapolis by 700 officers, leaving “right around 2,000” personnel in the Twin Cities.
Homan said increased cooperation between county jails and ICE made the partial withdrawal possible — a point echoed by the White House.
“At President Trump’s direction, Tom Homan’s commitment to draw down forces in Minneapolis today follows these achievements and the new, unprecedented cooperation from state and local officials in Minnesota,” Leavitt said.
“Commitments like these from elected officials to work with the President and federal law enforcement produce tremendous outcomes that help keep Americans safe.”
More over at The New York Post:
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— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 5, 2026