The surge yielded the "successful results we came here for," Homan said.
Alex Pretti, 37, was shot and killed on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis -- the second shooting of a U.S. citizen last month by federal agents in the city. His death was ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner.
The shooting of Pretti, an ICU nurse, ratcheted up tensions, as protesters clashed in the streets with law enforcement in the aftermath of the shooting.
The incident followed the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother, on Jan. 7.
Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday the federal government will "draw down" 700 agents in the Minnesota area "effective immediately."
He also said that CBP and ICE agents in Minnesota are aligned.
"Any large operation I've ever been apart of is one chain of command and that's where we're moving forward," he said.
-ABC News' Luke Barr
The White House’s border czar, Tom Homan, is scheduled to hold a press conference on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Homan is expected to speak at 8 a.m. CT, according to the White House.
The border czar was dispatched early last week to Minnesota to attempt to find a solution to the tensions that have roiled the state in the wake of two fatal shootings involving federal agents.
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have been carrying out Operation Metro Surge in the state.
Homan said last Thursday that "massive changes" were expected, saying he had reached agreements with local and state officials that would eventually "draw down" the number of federal agents in the city.
"We will conduct targeted enforcement operations -- targeted; what we've done for decades," Homan said last week. "When we hit the streets, we know exactly who we're looking for, have a good idea of where we may find them."
Eight more assistant U.S. attorneys are in the process of leaving the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, multiple officials told ABC News on Tuesday.
The departures come as frustrations are mounting inside the office about the handling of the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, sources told ABC News.
A Justice Department spokesperson referred ABC News to a February 2025 memo from the attorney general, which says in part, "when Department of Justice attorneys, for example, refuse to advance good-faith arguments by declining to appear in court or sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers."
The move comes in addition to six U.S. attorneys, including Joe Thompson, the lead prosecutor in the Founding Our Futures fraud case, who departed the office last month, according to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
-ABC News' Luke Barr
A federal judge is dissolving the temporary restraining order that prohibited federal investigators from destroying any evidence related to Alex Pretti's fatal shooting, finding that attorneys representing the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) failed to prove that the administration was unlikely to preserve evidence.
"Though the record is not one-sided, the greater weight of the evidence shows Defendants are not likely to destroy or improperly alter evidence related to Mr. Pretti's shooting during the life of this case, and other relevant considerations do not on balance favor a continuing preservation order," Judge Eric C. Tostrud said.
Tostrud said that the BCA had raised "significant concerns" about how the on-scene investigation was conducted, but that the "concerns about past conduct do not hold substantial predictive value" about how DHS would conduct the investigation in the future.
The judge also acknowledged that the swift comments DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other administration officials made about the shooting were "troubling" and cast doubt on the administration's "interest in learning the truth," but said BCA failed to prove that those comments indicated that evidence would be destroyed.
In response to the judge's decision, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, whose office sought the TRO along with BCA, said they "expect [the federal government] to do what they have pledged to do: preserve evidence of this fatal shooting."
"Preservation was step one. Access is step two and those efforts are already well underway," she continued.
-ABC News' Armando Garcia
