“He wanted to do that briefing in large part because he himself wanted to bring out the mugshots that we had printed for him,” a senior White House official told CNN. As a result, top White House officials have been plotting how to move the narrative away from the unrest in Minneapolis and instead focus on what they view as ICE’s achievements. But then a welfare-fraud scandal involving the Somali community in Minnesota started garnering more attention, and the Trump administration targeted the state as a destination to ramp up immigration enforcement. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images‘Lawful, targeted and focused’Trump tried to reframe the narrative from the White House podium this week. Trump officials they have so far been hesitant to invoke the act, not necessarily because of the legal complications, but because of the political ones.

Source: CNN January 24, 2026 02:32 UTC