{"id":21369,"date":"2026-02-05T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21369"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:09:10","slug":"nothing-has-really-substantially-changed-homans-efforts-leave-democrats-unimpressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21369","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing has really substantially changed\u2019: Homan\u2019s efforts leave Democrats unimpressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“federal immigration agents are still deployed across the city, with U.S. citizens continuing to have aggressive run-ins with them. Community members remain on edge, avoiding work and keeping children home from school. Both Democratic Gov. Tim Walz<\/a> and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday<\/a> called for a faster and larger drawdown of federal agents, a plea echoed by state, local and federal officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow we only have 2,300 aggressive, brutal, cosplaying soldiers bursting into people\u2019s homes, brutalizing people on the streets, killing citizens, creating mayhem and chaos,\u201d said state Sen. Scott Dibble, a member of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou tell us at some point there will only be 2,300, 3.5 times as many police as we have in our city, is that supposed to reassure us?\u201d said Minnesota state Rep. Aisha Gomez, a DFL member who represents parts of South Minneapolis. \u201cThey\u2019re in Minneapolis now, but they can be coming for your city next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House officials reiterated on Wednesday that Homan\u2019s decision to pull 700 agents was a result of new cooperation with local officials to take custody of immigrants who have committed crimes directly from jails. That meant the government no longer needs as many officers in the state.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/trump-administration-is-pulling-700-agents-from-minnesota-democrats-say-not-good-enough-00766328<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“federal immigration agents are still deployed across the city, with U.S. citizens continuing to have aggressive run-ins with them. Community members remain on edge, avoiding work and keeping children home from school. Both Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Wednesday called for a faster and larger drawdown of federal agents, a plea echoed by state, local and federal officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we only have 2,300 aggressive, brutal, cosplaying soldiers bursting into people\u2019s homes, brutalizing people on the streets, killing citizens, creating mayhem and chaos,\u201d said state Sen. Scott Dibble, a member of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cYou tell us at some point there will only be 2,300, 3.5 times as many police as we have in our city, is that supposed to reassure us?\u201d said Minnesota state Rep. Aisha Gomez, a DFL member who represents parts of South Minneapolis. \u201cThey\u2019re in Minneapolis now, but they can be coming for your city next.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

White House officials reiterated on Wednesday that Homan\u2019s decision to pull 700 agents was a result of new cooperation with local officials to take custody of immigrants who have committed crimes directly from jails. That meant the government no longer needs as many officers in the state.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/04\/trump-administration-is-pulling-700-agents-from-minnesota-democrats-say-not-good-enough-00766328<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,2108,838,221,26,493,25,1996,201,170],"class_list":["post-21369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-deport","tag-deportation","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-minnesota","tag-rule-of-law","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21370,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369\/revisions\/21370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}