LILIA LUCIANO:
00:00:21
President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, said Thursday that the large-scale immigration crackdown in Minneapolis will start looking different.
TOM HOMAN:
00:00:30
What we've been working on is making this operation safer, more efficient, by the book.
LILIA LUCIANO:
00:00:37
When asked for his take on the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Homan was more measured than some other administration officials earlier. Do I have an opinion? Yeah. My personal opinion, but I'm not going to share that with you. I'm going to tell you to let the investigation play out and see where it goes.
LILIA LUCIANO:
00:00:55
But state investigators continue to be excluded by the government from the federal investigations into the fatal shootings, as Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty told us. How would you categorize what the government is doing here in regards to your office and your investigation? It is unprecedented.
LILIA LUCIANO:
00:01:14
Moriarty said, the federal government's demands go beyond what's legally required. This is not about public safety. What do you think it's about? Extortion.
LILIA LUCIANO:
00:01:24
Homan said there's 3,000 agents currently deployed in Minnesota, and that number could be reduced if the state allows federal authorities expanded access to undocumented immigrants being held in state prisons and county jails. This is common sense cooperation that allows the drawdown on the number of people we have here. So yesterday, Homan did acknowledge that prisons cooperate with ICE detainer requests, but jails don't have to. That's part of what he wants to change. In terms of the investigation into the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the Hennepin County attorney told us that they are deciding whether to file criminal charges against the agents involved, but that there is no such thing as the agents having absolute immunity, despite what some administration officials might have suggested. Vlad. All right, Lilia, thank you.
