“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday. This isn’t the first time Department of Homeland Security officials have claimed that Operation Metro Surge, its massive campaign in Minnesota, was slowing down or ending altogether. Their presence increased twenty-fold under Metro Surge, an operation that began after a right-wing vlogger’s allegations of widespread fraud at daycares operated by Minneapolis’s Somali American community. Administration officials had previously said that the operation would end once state and local officials sufficiently collaborated with ICE. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Tim Frey.