As issues continue to, at times escalate, in Minneapolis, Minnesota with federal immigration agents, one lawmaker from Iowa weighs-in on the additional support from another key source.

US Senator Chuck Grassley says following President Donald Trump’s request of having his Border Czar Tom Homan being deployed to that area, he doesn’t accept what he said last week about being satisfied with how the US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is handling the different situations with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are dealing with people in the capital of Minnesota. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio he is optimistic that Homan will change things around. 

“I’m hoping that it’ll have a quieting effect, I think it will because Homan operates in a different way than the Department of Homeland Security people do. He’s speaking directly to the President, and with the President, and advising the President. The President has all sorts of confidence in Mr. Homan and I think things will slow down.”   

Grassley shares his thoughts on how the elevation of these events that have happened in Minneapolis got to where they are with two killings of people involving ICE agents, which he is waiting to see the conclusion of the investigations that now have the FBI looking into them.

“But it’s a sad commentary that two people had to die before we get some change of policy. And when I say change of policy, I’m not chastising the President for enforcing the immigration laws and getting the criminal elements and illegal aliens out of the United States. I’m just saying there’s a better way of doing it and what we’ve seen involving these killings is not the best way to do it and I think Tom Homan is going to find the right way of doing it.” 

Grassley adds that there will hopefully be some draw down of ICE agents within Minneapolis in the coming days or weeks.