As ICE and Border Patrol agents increasingly work alongside one another nationwide, it's often become difficult to tell them apart.

Homan, who arrived in Minnesota earlier this week, has already spoken with Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about the current operation.

Still, at the time, the Border Patrol remained a relatively small group focused on racial policing near the Mexican border. The agency’s most high-profile moment was Operation Wetback, which ejected approximately a million people in the mid-1950s.

Here are answers to key legal questions on what immigration agents and protesters are allowed to do, and where there are gray areas in the law.

Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol’s commander of at-large operations, has been demoted from his post overseeing embeds with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following an agent-involved shooting in Minneapolis over the weekend,

Gregory Bovino previously led immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte and New Orleans

Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minneapolis following a second fatal shooting as Trump reorganizes federal immigration enforcement.

Immigration enforcement involves a slew of federal agencies. Amid some calls to “abolish ICE,” here’s more information about the roles various departments play.

The Trump administration’s hardline approach to immigration policy sparked a rush of immigration-related arrests in Northwest Montana in 2025.

Pete Davidson returned to “Saturday Night Live” for the cold open of the Jan. 31 episode, portraying border czar Tom Homan as he’s training some woefully underprepared ICE agents. Davidson opened the segment by saying,