2026-02-03T21:42:26-0500 / CBS新闻
在联邦移民局特工在明尼苏达州致命枪击一名男子后的一周半内，该州最高惩教官员告诉CBS新闻，他们已经与联邦政府进行了”对话”，包括与向白宫边境负责人汤姆·霍曼汇报的人员进行的沟通。
但惩教部专员保罗·施内尔表示，在该州进行的长达数月的移民打击行动中，可能出现的州内降级细节仍然”模糊不清”，目前尚无联邦力量缩减的迹象。
霍曼上周表示，他正准备在某个时候减少明尼阿波利斯地区数千名ICE（美国移民海关执法局）和边境巡逻队特工的部署，但确切的时间表尚不清楚。
施内尔还表示，他仍然对仍有报道的战术”深感关切”，包括特工出现在公交站和未经明确、有针对性的优先事项清单就进入公寓楼。
“我们不希望有流动的特工群体进入公寓楼并要求人们出示证件，”施内尔说。”我们希望进行有针对性的行动，针对那些确实对公共安全构成风险的人。”
该州如何与ICE合作？
明尼阿波利斯地区的移民行动被称为”地铁突击行动”，始于12月初，已导致超过3000人被捕。这一行动因特工的战术受到州和地方官员的严厉批评，这些战术在1月24日37岁的亚历克斯·普雷蒂被边境巡逻队特工和海关与边境保护局官员枪击后有所升级。几周前，蕾妮·妮可·古德在明尼阿波利斯被ICE特工枪击。
与此同时，特朗普政府要求明尼苏达州和明尼阿波利斯市加强合作，拘留并移交被指控非法滞留美国的人员，霍曼暗示联邦力量缩减的时机可能”取决于合作程度”。政府指责该州未遵守ICE的拘留请求，施内尔过去曾强烈否认这一点。
联邦移民”拘留请求”是行政请求——而非刑事逮捕令——ICE向州监狱或县监狱发出，要求在某人获释前得到通知，并在某些情况下要求设施短暂拘留该人，以便联邦特工接管。
由于拘留请求无需法官签署，包括明尼苏达州在内的许多州对此持谨慎态度。明尼苏达州地方官员表示，在没有法院命令的情况下延长拘留可能引发宪法问题，并使地方机构面临法律责任。历史上，明尼苏达州的做法是在非公民被拘留释放时通知并协调ICE，不延长拘留期限。
施内尔表示，该州对监狱人口进行了审查，发现目前全州明尼苏达州拘留中心共有380名非美国公民。他补充说，其中270人有活跃的ICE拘留请求，剩下110人即使州当局已通知国土安全部，联邦政府也可以发出拘留请求但并未这样做。
“我们通知了他们，但他们没有发出拘留请求，”施内尔强调说。
他辩称，国土安全部的不作为削弱了联邦政府声称明尼苏达州阻碍其进入监狱的说法。
“当他们说’让我们进入你的监狱’时，我们的回应是’我们已经通知你——而你甚至没有请求你能做的所有人的拘留，’”施内尔说。”合作、对话、共同确定这些目标——这确实有意义，但到目前为止还没有做到。”
CBS新闻已联系国土安全部寻求置评。
包括霍曼在内的联邦官员多次向州和地方领导人要求：”让我们进入你的监狱，让我们进入你的拘留所。”
施内尔表示，这种说法忽视了明尼苏达州不会跨越的法律红线。
“答案是否定的。我们不能，我们不会，”施内尔说。”明尼苏达州有司法利益，受害者有司法利益。”
施内尔称，明尼苏达州不能提前释放州判刑人员交由联邦拘留，因为该州对受害者和法院有自己的义务。该州的立场是，ICE可以在刑期结束后接管，但不能凌驾于州法院判决之上。
明尼苏达州希望从联邦政府得到什么
施内尔概述了对联邦政府的两项要求。
明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·瓦尔兹要求大幅削减联邦人员，称鉴于明尼苏达州实际可能被驱逐的人数，如此大规模的部署”没有正当理由”。在提出计划一周后，施内尔表示该州仍未得到任何具体细节。
“我们不知道缩减规模会是什么样子，”施内尔说。”我们被告知计划正在制定——但细节仍然模糊不清。”
霍曼在普雷蒂死后抵达明尼阿波利斯，上周告诉记者，官员们正在制定缩减计划，但他表示这取决于联邦当局能否进入该州的拘留所。他补充说：”我会留在这里直到问题解决。”
其次，该州要求对普雷蒂和古德的死亡事件进行可信、透明的联合调查，州方要能获取两个案件的证据。州当局指控联邦政府阻碍他们获取这两起致命枪击案的证据。
“可信的调查意味着对证据的全面审查，”施内尔表示，包括采访所有相关人员，联邦和州调查人员的协调，以及考虑刑事法律和民权法律。
当被问及现在是否对调查有信心时，施内尔直截了当地说：”目前的情况？没有。我认为我们有充分理由感到担忧。”
上周，FBI牵头调查普雷蒂死亡事件，此前国土安全部的国土安全调查局负责这一调查。副司法部长托德·布兰奇上周表示，司法部民权司也在调查这一事件，称该部门是”世界上在这方面的最佳专家”，并表示联邦调查是”在这种情况下我们一贯会采取的做法”。
他称将普雷蒂案件移交FBI是”一个好举动”，但补充说联邦当局缺乏细节从一开始就是个问题。
对公共安全附带损害的担忧
施内尔呼应了明尼苏达州各地治安官和警察局长提出的担忧，即罪犯可能利用联邦突击行动中出现的混乱。
但他补充说，真正的风险更为广泛：对执法部门的不信任，移民社区的恐惧，正常警务中断以及政府公信力下降。
“政府信任是根本，”他说。”当我们失去信任时，我们就会面临问题。”
施内尔称赞明尼苏达州执法部门试图负责任地处理这一困难局面——在保护公众的同时防止对抗升级为暴力事件——但补充说恢复信任需要时间。
“我们还没有走出困境。我们还有工作要做。”
根据专员的说法，最近与联邦政府官员的对话已开始让联邦官员重新关注”专业、符合宪法的警务”和问责制。
“问责制不仅要针对公众，也要针对政府，”他说。”错误信息助长不信任——而不信任是我们目前面临的最大问题。”
Top Minnesota corrections official questions when federal immigration agencies will draw down forces
2026-02-03T21:42:26-0500 / CBS News
In the week-and-a-half since federal immigration agents fatally shot a man in Minnesota, the state’s top corrections official told CBS News there have been “conversations” with the federal government, including with people who report to White House border czar Tom Homan.
But Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell said details on a possible deescalation in the state — which has been the subject of a monthslong immigration crackdown — remain “sketchy,” with no signs of a drawdown of federal forces yet.
Homan said last week he is preparing to reduce the thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents in the Minneapolis area at some point, but the exact timeline is not clear.
Schnell also said he remains “deeply concerned” about tactics that are still being reported, including agents appearing at bus stops and entering apartment buildings without a clear, targeted list of priorities.
“We don’t want roving bands of agents going into apartment buildings and asking people for their papers,” Schnell said. “We want a focused, targeted operation aimed at people who actually pose a risk to public safety.”
How is the state cooperating with ICE?
The immigration operation in the Minneapolis area — known as Operation Metro Surge — began in early December and has led to more than 3,000 arrests. The operation has drawn stiff criticism from state and local officials over agents’ tactics, which intensified after 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot by a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection officer on Jan. 24. Weeks earlier, Renee Nicole Good was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, has demanded more cooperation from the state of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis in detaining and turning over people accused of being in the U.S. illegally, with Homan suggesting the timing of a federal drawdown could be “dependent upon cooperation.” The administration has accused the state of not honoring detainer requests from ICE, which Schnell has strongly denied in the past.
Federal immigration “detainers” are administrative requests — not criminal warrants — that ICE sends to a state prison or county jail asking to be notified before a person is released and, in some cases, asking the facility to hold that person briefly so federal agents can take custody.
Because detainers are not signed by a judge, many states — including Minnesota — treat them with some caution. Local officials in Minnesota say holding someone past their scheduled release without a court order can raise constitutional concerns and expose local agencies to legal liability. Historically, Minnesota’s state practice has been to notify and coordinate ICE when a non-citizen is released from custody, without extending their detention.
Schnell said the state carried out a review of its prison population and found that 380 non-U.S. citizens are currently in Minnesota custody statewide. Of those, he added, 270 had active ICE detainers, leaving 110 people that the federal government could have placed detainers on but did not, even after state authorities notified the Department of Homeland Security.
“We notified them. They did not issue detainers,” Schnell said emphatically.
He argued the lack of action by DHS undercut federal claims that Minnesota is blocking access to its prisons.
“When they say, ‘Let us into your prisons,’ our response is, ‘we are notifying you — and you’re not even requesting everyone you could,’” Schnell said. “Collaboration, conversations, working together to know who these targets are — that does make good sense, and that has not happened to date.”
CBS News has reached out to DHS for comment.
Federal officials, including Homan, have repeatedly demanded of state and local leaders: “Let us into your prisons, let us into your jails.”
Schnell said that framing misses a legal line Minnesota will not cross.
“The answer to that is no. We can’t. We won’t.” Schnell said. “Minnesota has a justice interest; victims have a justice interest.”
Minnesota cannot release people early from state sentences to federal custody because the state has its own obligations to victims and courts, Schnell said. The state’s position is that ICE can take custody after a sentence is completed, but it cannot override a state court judgment.
What Minnesota wants from the federal government
Schnell outlined two demands for the federal government.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has asked for a “dramatic and sizable” reduction in federal personnel, arguing there is “no justification” for the scale of the deployment given the actual number of people in Minnesota who could be subject to removal. A week after requesting a plan, Schnell said the state still has no real details.
“We have no idea what the drawdown looks like,” Schnell said. “We’ve been told plans are being developed — but the details remain sketchy.”
Homan — who arrived in Minneapolis following Pretti’s death — told reporters last week that officials were working on a drawdown plan, but he said it’s dependent on federal authorities getting access to jails in the state. He added: “I’m staying till the problem is gone.”
Second, the state is demanding a credible, transparent joint investigation into the deaths of Pretti and Good, with state access to evidence in both cases. State authorities have alleged the federal government has blocked them from accessing evidence on the two fatal shootings.
“A credible investigation means a full review of evidence,” Schnell stated, including interviews with everyone involved, coordination between federal and state investigators, and consideration of both criminal law and civil rights law.
Asked whether he is confident in the investigations now, Schnell said plainly: “Where it sits today? No. I think there is good reason for us to be concerned.”
The FBI took the lead in investigating Pretti’s death last week, a shift after DHS’s Homeland Security Investigations division was previously tasked with handling the investigation. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said last week the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is also looking into the incident, calling the division “the best experts in the world at this” and saying a federal probe is “what we would always do in circumstances like this.”
He said the decision to move the Pretti case to the FBI was “a good move,” but added that the lack of detail from federal authorities has been a problem from day one.
Fear of collateral damage to public safety
Schnell echoed concerns raised by local sheriffs and police chiefs throughout Minnesota that criminals could exploit the chaos that has arisen during the federal surge.
But he added that the real risk is broader: distrust of law enforcement, fear in immigrant communities, disruption of normal policing and erosion of government credibility.
“Governmental trust is fundamental,” he said. “When we don’t have it, we have a problem.”
Schnell commended Minnesota law enforcement for trying to manage a difficult situation responsibly — protecting the public while preventing confrontations from becoming explosive — but added that restoring trust will take time.
“We are not out of the woods yet. We have work to do.”
Recent conversations with federal government officials have begun to refocus federal officials on “professional, constitutional policing” and accountability, according to the commissioner.
“Accountability has to be on the government as well as the public,” he said. “Misinformation fuels mistrust — and mistrust is our biggest problem right now.”