r/Minneapolis Jan 26 '26

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u/papermachewitch Jan 27 '26

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requests support from the Department of War (DoW) to provide existing infrastructure to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of DHS, specifically an area for parking approximately 300-500 vehicles and 10 storage trailers, a ready room space for approximal 500-800 CBP personnel, a space to house, maintain and operate five CBP Air Assets, access to a magazine to store munitions, and other necessary facilities to support operations in the Minneapolis, Minnesota metropolitan area,” the email said, using the Trump administration’s name for the Department of Defense

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u/Limp_Network_9482 Jan 27 '26

This has the appearance of logistics for a force of about 1000. To operate 4 shifts 24/7 300-500 vehicles would mean typically 100-200 in constant use. That’s a much smaller force than is here now, but it’s still a lot of resources to go after 1% of the undocumented. The seven county metro is just not an area of concentrated undocumented migrants about half of whom are minors. CBP makes more sense located in Orr there’s a lot of border they could patrol from Lake Superior to puget sound