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The unrest surrounding immigration enforcement in Minnesota is a flashpoint for a much deeper struggle over U.S. sovereignty.

A sovereign nation, by definition, must be able to enforce its laws within its own territory.

When federal immigration law is openly resisted, and elected leaders excuse, rationalize, fail to deter, or even encourage violence against those tasked with exercising constitutional authority, both the federal government and the nation lose their fundamental legitimacy.

🚨 LMAO! DHS agents showed off an “ICE OUT” poster they captured in Minneapolis

And of course, the white liberal women start screeching about it

These videos never get old 🤣 pic.twitter.com/FEQXLyUxoj

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2026

The Trump administration will draw down 700 federal law enforcement officers from Minnesota “effective immediately,” border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday.

After that partial withdrawal, around 2,000 federal agents will remain in the state — a roughly 25% reduction — with most concentrated in the Twin Cities area encompassing Minneapolis and St. Paul, Homan said at a press conference.

Homan announced the pullback after touting “unprecedented cooperation” between the federal government and state and local entities.

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union.

Not all Unionists believed a civil war was inevitable: Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see the stain of slavery gone from the Union.

Similarly, others agreed that the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble and costs of war, and the secessionists could just form their own nation and stew in their own backward, servile juice.