Border czar Tom Homan vows to stay in Minnesota 'until the problem's gone'
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Minnesota law enforcement will increase its cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Twin Cities, White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday.
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The border chief said he had a "very productive" meeting with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Wednesday. Ellison agreed to notify ICE when local jails were releasing violent illegal aliens, a major request from federal law enforcement.
"One ICE agent can arrest one bad guy when he's behind the safety and security of a jail when he's behind bars and we know he doesn't have weapons," Homan said. "But when you release that public safety threat illegal alien back into the community – we have a job to do. We're going to arrest him, so we're going to find him."
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