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U.S. Custom and Border Protection plans to reduce the number of agents in Minnesota and Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave the state
today, reports Luke Barr of ABC News [link removed].??

As Bovino returns to his duties as chief-of-sector in El Centro, California, "Border Czar" Tom Homan will arrive in Minneapolis. Amid the shift, a team at The New York Times [link removed] looks at how the administration's tactics are affecting confidence and morale within enforcement agencies.??

Also yesterday, the president spoke with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and sounded a more collaborative note, as Lydia Morrell, Samantha Fischer and Jeremiah Jacobsen of KARE11 [link removed] report.??

"I'm heartened to see
initial steps toward the more sensible approaches we need to keep everyone secure, including law enforcement, bystanders and immigrants themselves," Jennie said in a statement yesterday [link removed] that also includes a law enforcement and a national security leader.??

(Worth another look: Our September 2024 explainer [link removed] on what mass deportation could look like.)??

In an op-ed for The New York Times [link removed], Rep. Mike Lawler (R-New York) calls for bipartisan solutions and the rebuilding of trust. "No matter where you stand on immigration enforcement, the shootings show that
what the country has been doing is not working," he writes.??

And the Rev. Jared Wensyel writes in a Religion News Service [link removed] op-ed, "We can insist on reforms that restore order without forfeiting the way of Jesus and his call to loving those who are not like us, caring for the orphan, the widow and the stranger."??

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon, the Forum's VP of Strategic Communications, and the great Forum Daily team also includes Jillian Clark, Nicci Mattey, Malaika Onyia and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send???it???to me at [email protected].??

**GOVERNORS, BUSINESS LEADERS** - The National Governors Association issued a statement following the second shooting death in Minneapolis, reports Ray Rivera of The Oklahoman
[link removed]. "As Governors, we urge leaders at all levels to exercise wisdom and consider a reset of strategy toward a unified vision for immigration enforcement," wrote the NGA, chaired by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R). Meanwhile, a Business Insider [link removed] team reports on more business and tech leaders speaking out - including the letter from Minnesota CEOs of companies including Best Buy, Land O'Lakes and Target.??

**REVETTING** - In Minnesota, more than 100 refugees with no criminal record have been detained and transferred to detention centers in Texas for interviews under Operation PARRIS, report Miriam Jordan and Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times
[link removed]. Among them is Selamawit Mehari, a single mother of three whom agents removed from her home and sent to Texas. "We didn't understand. We had done everything right," said Mehari's daughter Yosan, 21. Concerns over refugee revetting were a main subject of our Facebook conversation last week [link removed].??

**STATE LEGISLATION** - In Colorado, state lawmakers will begin debate on at least three bills that would limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in the state, reports John Frank of Axios Denver [link removed]. In Nebraska a 20-year-old law allowing some undocumented
students who grew up in the state to pay in-state tuition at public universities is being tested, reports Cindy Gonzalez of the Nebraska Examiner [link removed].??

**A STRONG REBUTTAL** - Abdi Nor Iftin, author of "Call Me American," speaks to his experience as a Somali refugee in the United States in his piece for Time [link removed]. Iftin responds to the president's harsh words about the Somali community. "Many Somali Americans love this country fiercely - not because it is flawless, but because we know what life looks like without functioning institutions," he writes. "We value the rule of law because we have lived without it."??

Thanks for
reading,??

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