The Culture War - Tim Pool - Trump To END ICE Surge In Minnesota, MAGA Says He's BACKING DOWN

00:00:00.000 So let's get to this first story. This is what everyone is talking about. Everyone's freaking

00:00:04.500 out. This was the clip that's been going around this morning. This is the copy that Disclosed TV

00:00:10.400 put. With Trump's approval, Boarder's Sard Tom Homan announces that the deportation surge

00:00:14.720 operation in Minnesota will conclude. Take a look at what he had to say.

00:00:18.280 With that, the success that has been made arresting public safety threats and other

00:00:22.720 priorities since this surge operation began, as well as the unprecedented levels of coordination

00:00:28.340 we have obtained from state officials and local law enforcement, I have proposed, and

00:00:33.540 President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown

00:00:42.620 has already been underway this week and will continue to the next week.

00:00:48.720 So obviously people are not super thrilled about this. For good reason, I think. I'm going

00:00:55.900 to Steelman, the opposition here. Because like I said at the top of the show, the victory

00:01:02.540 condition for the left in Minneapolis was a drawdown, right? That's what they wanted. That's

00:01:07.660 what they said. I mean, their signs, ICE out, get these people out of here. We don't want

00:01:11.740 you here. This is our community. We saw Kyle Reddithouse, you know, the big chunky guy with

00:01:16.540 the firearm walking around his neighborhood because he wanted to repel ICE from the city.

00:01:21.240 Um, there's, there's two different, my apologies, my throat is still very dry from the, from the

00:01:30.300 week. I promise next week I'll be firing on all cylinders. Um, there's two sort of lines

00:01:35.400 of thinking here of how we should move forward. The first one is do not let up until every illegal

00:01:40.540 immigrant has been removed from Minneapolis and to crush these leftist protesters. Um, again, 0.57

00:01:46.280 we saw this, if you remember this entire operation in Minneapolis started following Nick Shirley's

00:01:53.460 video, Nick Shirley, obviously a street journalist, citizen journalist. Um, he went on the, on the

00:01:59.060 ground in Minneapolis and he documented all these daycares, um, that were operating in Minneapolis

00:02:04.000 with basically no children, um, exposing this massive racket that was going on, um, at the behest

00:02:11.360 of the Somali community, I guess, for lack of a better word in Minneapolis. It was really

00:02:16.100 a, really a dramatic, uh, dramatic thing. I mean, it was shocking to see fraud right before

00:02:22.600 your very eyes. Cause typically these sorts of things you see in data or you see different

00:02:26.120 headlines, but it's unclear what it actually looks like actually going there with a camera

00:02:30.300 and seeing these daycares firsthand and making these people defend what they've been up to

00:02:35.360 was really something to see. Um, and in response, you know, DHS, uh, at Kirstie Noem's direction,

00:02:42.860 uh, flooded the city with 3000 agents. So there's 3000 DHS agents that were deployed to the city

00:02:48.380 to mop up Tim Waltz's mess, the governor of Minnesota, the seriously retarded governor of 1.00

00:02:53.480 Minnesota per president Trump. And, uh, so this, this happened, the DHS agents flood the city and

00:02:59.100 following that, uh, the leftist agitators all across the city and all across the country, um,

00:03:04.460 cause we had the, obviously the leftist elements in Minneapolis, but people sort of pouring it from

00:03:08.760 across the country. You were seeing some of these interviews on the streets or some of these arrests,

00:03:12.220 uh, people from, you know, Portland, Seattle, um, really everywhere, Chicago, uh, Missouri, even,

00:03:19.140 um, I think Renee good hailed from Missouri. Um, so you saw all these people coming in to the city

00:03:25.360 and it really became kind of this flashpoint, uh, for effectively being a referendum on, um,

00:03:32.240 Trump's deportation operation. And it turned into a thing. That's what it turned into a thing.

00:03:39.040 So then the Renee good killing happens, um, you know, where she tries to ram an ice agent with 0.99

00:03:43.600 her car and things just really get out of control there. And so that's when there was two options

00:03:48.980 presented to the Trump administration is a, do we keep pressing on here? Cause look, when the initial

00:03:55.180 surge of DHS agents flooded into the city, the, we knew what the victory condition was for the left.

00:04:00.680 They want to just repel the federal government completely, but it was unclear what the wind

00:04:06.000 condition was for the Trump administration. How many deportations do we need before we could say

00:04:11.880 job is done? It became, it became kind of a quagmire in some ways I would say again, to maybe defend

00:04:18.740 the Trump administration, because I mean, what, what exactly would the victory look like for us?

00:04:24.760 Every single Somali deported from Minneapolis. I mean, this would take quite a long time.

00:04:30.460 Um, every leftist arrested, every leftist agitator arrested. Again, these are things that I would

00:04:35.340 like to see, but how realistic is that to happen within a few months? I don't think that's entirely

00:04:43.120 realistic. Again, these sorts of things take quite a bit of time. Um, you know, rounding up every Somali 1.00

00:04:48.960 in Minneapolis, um, it's not entirely realistic to happen in a few months, but it's also, you kind

00:04:56.080 of have to negotiate from a position of strength. I mean, we learned this in the, um, the Biden

00:05:00.620 administration when they withdrew from Afghanistan was it's similar to here. Okay. The correct 1.00

00:05:06.360 decision probably is to eventually start winding down in Afghanistan. There's no question about

00:05:11.280 that. The Trump administration actually was the one that implemented the plan to withdraw from

00:05:14.540 Afghanistan, but it's when you sort of give away your, your, your hand, when you just leave

00:05:20.000 suddenly, um, it turns into a bit of a mess. And so again, withdrawing from a position of strength

00:05:28.020 is very vital here. And so that's the calculation the Trump administration has to make in Minneapolis

00:05:33.840 with this deportation surge operation is they have to determine, have we accomplished our goal,

00:05:40.240 right? What was the goal? Have we accomplished it? Okay. Now it's time to withdraw.

00:05:44.540 And that's, I think what is occurring here, because again, there's only so many resources

00:05:49.400 to go around with these three letter agencies. I see a CPB, um, DHS, like they only have so many

00:05:55.920 agents. How long do we want to keep bearing down in Minneapolis? Um, that's the question.

00:06:01.880 And it appears that Trump and Tom Homan have both made the calculation that, okay, it's time to start

00:06:07.160 reallocating some of these resources elsewhere in the country to continue this deportation

00:06:11.800 operation. Things in Minneapolis maybe have gotten to the point where it's not entirely productive

00:06:16.900 to be there. And that's a fair calculation to make. And it's something that I would concur with

00:06:21.860 the problem. And I've made this point since the operation began in Minneapolis is you kind of have

00:06:27.460 to make a statement in Minneapolis. Like this is different than if we were, you know, conducting

00:06:32.240 operations in Los Angeles or Seattle or wherever in the country is what happened in Minneapolis is it

00:06:36.960 became the flashpoint. It became the battleground for pro ice and anti ice, really just ice versus

00:06:45.600 these anti ice leftist agitators. And so that's why this withdrawal of this statement does feel like

00:06:53.980 a capitulation of, of sorts, you know, people are saying, well, you're kind of giving them what they

00:07:00.200 want, even if this is something we would have done anyway, it's about the optics, right? So the question is now,

00:07:06.180 with this withdrawal, does this embolden leftists? Does this give them the feeling that, hey, if we

00:07:12.180 chimp out long enough, we can repel federal agents from our cities? It's a question that's worth

00:07:19.460 pondering. Later in this, in this press briefing, Tom Homan said something quite encouraging. So here's

00:07:26.320 what he had to say. Here's the copy from Disclose, they said, from Tom Homan. For those that say we are

00:07:33.120 backing down from immigration enforcement or the promise of mass deportations, you're simply wrong.

00:07:36.760 Look at the data. So here's what he had to say. Take a look at this.

00:07:39.400 For those that say we are backing down from immigration enforcement or the promise of mass

00:07:43.340 deportations, you are simply wrong. Look at the data. Record number of arrests and deportations under

00:07:50.440 President Trump's first year. And we'll continue that effort. Prioritizing public safety threats and

00:07:57.760 national security threats doesn't mean we'll forget about everybody else. We will take action

00:08:02.460 on everybody else. That's just a stone cold fact.

00:08:07.880 So this is why I think the correct take here is actually a bit in the middle, right? I know it's

00:08:13.980 not like a nuclear hot take or anything. I'm not trying to sound like a fence sitter here,

00:08:18.440 but I think it's true. I think you can simultaneously be disappointed in this decision because it does

00:08:22.740 feel like it emboldens leftist activists while preventing it, you know, while not just coming

00:08:27.920 out and saying mass deportations aren't happening, MAGA is dead, et cetera, et cetera.

00:08:32.760 Like this, this headline hit at the same time. Because what you have to do when you're analyzing

00:08:39.080 the Trump administration's performance on deportations is what is the left's reaction?

00:08:44.180 You know, do they, are they celebrating? Are they saying finally mass deportations is over?

00:08:48.060 Because people on the right, you know, a lot of different people, um, from a variety of

00:08:53.740 positions or, or sort of, I guess, ideologies that are on the right in this big tent are declaring

00:09:00.500 that MAGA is dead. They're declaring that mass deportations is not happening. It's a failure.

00:09:05.260 Um, but what is the left saying? They're not saying that they're not saying MAGA is dead.

00:09:08.560 They're not saying mass deportations are over. They're saying the opposite. They're saying,

00:09:11.680 you know, this is the most dramatic escalation from the right in history. We're terrified.

00:09:16.300 This is an authoritarian regime. They have not, they, I don't think they actually view this as

00:09:20.980 a, as a victory. Um, cause this was a headline from, from NBC news. Um, and this is what, this

00:09:26.900 is true. This is what's happening. Trump administration is dramatically expanding effort

00:09:30.520 to revoke U S citizenship for foreign born Americans as it works to curb immigration.

00:09:35.020 So again, we're seeing remigration. This is, this has been the, this has been the ticket 1.00

00:09:40.160 remigration. This is what we've been wanting to see, uh, from the Trump administration is okay. 0.96

00:09:45.340 It's one thing to deport, you know, violent criminals. That's great. That's the priority,

00:09:49.560 obviously, because of the people that are actively harming Americans. But if we really want to conduct

00:09:54.480 mass deportations, part of what's going to happen, have to happen is we need to take a look at the

00:09:59.400 citizenship of a lot of these people that have showed up recently, because again, if you're trying

00:10:02.940 to restore the country to a previous, um, sort of iteration, you need to look at a lot of these

00:10:08.560 people that came in recently. So this is again, very encouraging. Oh, this is very encouraging from the

00:10:14.660 Trump administration that again, they're, they're taking a look at remigration. They're actually

00:10:18.700 expanding a remigration, um, sort of regime here. So again, this is why I think you can 1.00

00:10:25.400 simultaneously be disappointed, um, with the decision that was made in Minneapolis without

00:10:30.520 declaring that we're failing because we're certainly succeeding on the deportation front. I mean,

00:10:34.900 this is still absolutely massive. Um, again, I put this tweet up, um, right before we went live

00:10:42.000 here, uh, it's from CBS news. This was the headline as pathways to freedom have narrowed

00:10:46.400 and immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their

00:10:50.100 cases and voluntarily leaving the country. So obviously you, you know, you have these, um,

00:10:55.480 these people on the left who are declaring that Trump's running concentration camps. So again,

00:11:01.840 what do you have people on the right that are declaring MAGA is dead, mass deportations are

00:11:05.580 happening. That's one thing people on the left don't think that that's the case. People on the left

00:11:09.540 are accurately and analyzing the situation. They're saying we're, we're bleeding, we're losing.

00:11:14.360 And, uh, they're declaring this as concentration camps. As we said, this is the most benevolent 0.96

00:11:17.760 concentration camp in history where you're encouraged to leave and go home. So with that,

00:11:24.000 I mean, you have to go back to the larger reality because it's one thing to do these shock and awe

00:11:30.540 campaigns like we're seeing in Minneapolis. But when you look at the whole, what's been happening,

00:11:35.520 um, with the Trump administration, what, what is the general mood? What is the atmosphere

00:11:40.040 around migration in the United States? Again, it's not favorable. It's not favorable for

00:11:45.240 pro-immigration, uh, proponents. This was, uh, from the census bureau. This is a headline,

00:11:50.680 new population estimates show historic decline in net international migration, um, peaked at 2.7

00:11:56.880 million in 2024 and has declined to 1.3 million in 2025. So again, you're seeing, um, and they're,

00:12:03.520 they're projecting it to decline further, another 320,000. So again, if you're looking at the, uh,

00:12:10.040 the deportation situation, the general environment around migration, the United States is still very

00:12:14.160 much in the camp of mass deportation. It's certainly taking the boot off of the neck and

00:12:19.260 allowing, um, Americans to not feel like we're being completely flooded here. We've turned the

00:12:23.520 tap off. That's really something that's really something, a sight to behold. This is why I want to

00:12:28.180 get into where the Trump administration should continue to press. Um, this is a, a, uh, sort of

00:12:36.020 a team of analysts that, uh, post, uh, some really useful information on Twitter, uh, the white papers

00:12:42.140 policy Institute. They put this data up 37% of Nicaragua's GDP is remittances from the United

00:12:48.100 States, 6.2 billion. So remittances is when a foreigner that's in the United States, they make 0.99

00:12:53.640 money from the American economy. They extract money from the American economy and they send it back to

00:12:58.180 their home country. This is what are remittances. And a lot of people that are, you know, uh, you

00:13:03.160 know, wanting to see mass deportations, the United States, they say, this is all great. You can deport 0.57

00:13:07.280 people, but to really kick this into overdrive, you need to eliminate the incentive structures for

00:13:13.940 people to be in the United States in the first place. And the main way to do that would be to cut off 0.99

00:13:18.140 remittances would make it very difficult for people that are here working in the United States to send

00:13:22.860 money back to their families, to their friends, et cetera, in their home country. Um, so I'll, I'll read

00:13:28.000 here some of the data 37. I read that one, 25% of El Salvador's GDP is remittances from America. 27% of

00:13:33.720 Honduras's economy has remittances 19% of Guatemala's economy. 70% of Hispanic migrants are using the

00:13:40.020 welfare state. So again, 70% of migrants from Latin America are currently using some form of welfare 0.98

00:13:45.620 assistance from the United States government. Americans are paying effectively. This is a laundering

00:13:50.940 operation where Americans are paying money to Latin American migrants who then in turn send that money back to

00:13:59.000 their home countries. It's the American economy. It's the American economy. They're extracting money from the

00:14:04.520 American economy and from American taxpayers, and they are shipping that money overseas. That's what the remittance 0.68

00:14:10.120 system is. And then as you can see here, these countries, their GDP is dependent on remittances from the United

00:14:16.420 States. It's absolutely shocking to see. And so this is why people have accurately come to the conclusion that the only

00:14:22.880 way to really clamp down on, uh, migration to, again, people will just start self-deporting if they can no longer

00:14:29.920 justify their existence in the United States because they're not making enough money to send back home.

00:14:35.320 Rog Nationalist, he put some thoughts up and this is 100% accurate. He's, he's British and Britain's obviously dealing with a 0.82

00:14:42.340 similar situation. One of the easiest ways to achieve this would be to tax remittances at 100%. America should do

00:14:47.580 this. The UK should do this. Every nation that wants to send home millions of migrants should do this. If they can send 1.00

00:14:52.220 that taxpayer money home, uh, many will go home voluntarily. It's absolutely true. I know in the big

00:14:58.460 beautiful bill, they, there was a provision to start taxing remittances, but this should be taxed at 100%.

00:15:05.060 There's, if you're coming to the United States, if you've come here, you know, whatever, if you, if you want to

00:15:11.240 reside here, um, you shouldn't have one foot out the door. You shouldn't have any loyalty to your home country. You should

00:15:16.260 be all in. There shouldn't be an instance where it occurs to you to send money back to your home country. This is why

00:15:21.280 taxing remittances at 100% would be a no brainer because then the people that would be coming here would not be coming

00:15:26.540 here with the intention of funding, um, people in a, in a different country. They would be coming here to operate 100% all

00:15:33.460 America. So really some dramatic stuff. Um, with that, the immigration debate is all, all over the place. People are still

00:15:40.800 going at it. Um, this was yesterday, sir, Jim Ratcliffe. He put this, he made this statement.

00:15:45.740 Um, Tommy Robinson got the clip here. Um, quote, the UK is colonized by immigrants. Man United co-owner, 1.00

00:15:51.420 sir, Jim Ratcliffe says, um, very, very wealthy man. Um, again, some are saying he's the wealthiest

00:15:56.420 and Brittany is net worth like $20 billion. Um, you can't have an economy with 9 million people on

00:16:00.960 benefits and huge levels of immigration coming in. I mean, the UK has been colonized. It's costing too much 1.00

00:16:05.680 money. The UK has been colonized by immigrants really hasn't it. I mean, the population of the UK 0.66

00:16:09.880 was 58 million in 2020. Now it is 70 million. That is 12 million people. If you're a little new around here,

00:16:14.700 Britain, the native population is declining. They have a negative birth rate. It's the same thing in the United States,

00:16:20.420 but the UK, their birth rates even lower. So 12 million people, that's not births, uh, certainly not births from

00:16:26.160 natives. That is new arrivals to the country. And if you ask young people in the United States or the United Kingdom, 1.00

00:16:32.500 how they're faring, um, they're not going to be very, um, they're not going to compliment the, uh, the economic

00:16:38.100 conditions in their country, uh, to say the least, they, it's very limited, right? Housing's extremely limited. Uh,

00:16:43.480 most people, most young people have given up on owning a home. Uh, they're having difficulties in the job market.

00:16:47.900 They're having, they're struggling to find jobs. Um, even cars, it's, it's really difficult to find a used car that's

00:16:53.100 affordable that you can, you know, make your commutes in. It's really just, it's, it's, it's grim. And if the population is

00:17:00.700 declining for young people, um, it'll be, it should actually be easier for young people to get a leg 0.81

00:17:08.400 up because there'd be more resources freed up because the older population is larger. So that

00:17:12.320 means there's more resources coming down the pike for young people. Everything should be getting 0.97

00:17:15.680 cheaper. Um, and that's not happening because they're flooding the country. So if you're, you know,

00:17:19.920 like me, you're 25 years old and you're, you know, now sort of setting up your life, uh, now you're

00:17:26.080 competing against the entire third world who will work for half the prices you and their 1.00

00:17:30.220 expectations, their standards are far lower. They'll live in tighter that you'll pack more

00:17:35.080 people into a house. Um, they'll accept a, uh, inferior, inferior car, um, these sorts of things.

00:17:41.860 So Jim Ratcliffe's absolutely correct here. And of course, everyone's freaking out. Uh,

00:17:46.260 Suella Braverman, she's reform, um, candidate or a member of parliament. There's a lot of controversy

00:17:52.760 over here, but she made a good statement here. People squabble over terminology, but Jim Ratcliffe

00:17:57.020 is right. Many areas of Britain are now totally unrecognizable compared to 50, 20, or even 10

00:18:00.900 years ago. Um, unprecedented levels of mass migration today make me so angry. The British 1.00

00:18:05.360 people have seen other streets have changed. All multiculturalism has failed in their sense of 1.00

00:18:08.360 pride and history has been altered and distorted. They have been called racist for speaking the

00:18:12.100 truth, but Britain's culture and resources have been eroded. Mass migration is the problem. 0.98

00:18:16.120 And this is absolutely correct. And this is a really actually excellent framing from

00:18:20.400 Suella Braverman because look, you can make all the economic arguments of why migration,

00:18:24.120 mass migration is failing the native populations of these countries. And there's no question about 1.00

00:18:27.640 that. But even if these people were like net contributors to the economy, even if it was

00:18:31.900 like a miracle mass migration, I think people still have the right to have a say over what their

00:18:37.540 country actually looks like. So again, let's just straw, let's just for the sake of argument,

00:18:42.560 let's just say that these migrants come to the United States, for example, were actually

00:18:46.800 net contributors. Let's say they are outperforming Americans. Let's say that they

00:18:50.340 were net contributors to the economy, to the tax base, like these people were economic miracles.

00:18:54.220 We would still, as Americans, have the right to not want them here because we would like America 0.97

00:18:58.780 to remain the same. We would like America to be familiar. We would like our cities or towns or

00:19:04.520 schools to be American. That's a perfectly valid concern to have. Like the demographic composition of 0.98

00:19:13.080 your country is up for debate. That is a valid concern to have. And so that's why I think this framing

00:19:19.220 is actually excellent from Suella Braverman here because she's conceding that, yes, like economically,

00:19:26.220 that makes no sense to have migration. That alone, I use these arguments all the time. I just did for 0.87

00:19:30.240 20 minutes. Alone, on migration alone, the economic argument should be enough to remove all these people 1.00

00:19:39.060 from the country. But beyond that, these people are changing the country. The UK is different now.

00:19:44.440 I go there all the time. The UK is not British anymore in a lot of parts of it. And it's not 0.97

00:19:49.160 just London anymore. It used to be just London, but now it's Huddersfield. Huddersfield is completely

00:19:54.280 capitulated. As Jim Ratcliffe put, it's been colonized by foreigners. That's 100% correct, 1.00

00:20:00.640 and that's unacceptable. And as you can see here, the leftist or left-wing media in Britain is freaking

00:20:07.560 out. LBC, one of their commentators said, Jim Ratcliffe is wrong in every meaningful way.

00:20:13.560 James O'Brien can't believe that the media are welcoming debate as to whether the Man United's

00:20:17.600 owners' comments were right. Carl Benjamin, absolutely correct here. Jim Ratcliffe is directly

00:20:23.160 over the target. All they can do is splutter, curse, and spit at him, but they cannot describe

00:20:27.940 how he is wrong. So absolutely correct. I'm glad Jim Ratcliffe actually stood up, and he's,

00:20:33.740 as we can tell, still standing on business. Keir Starmer, the prime minister, has called for him to

00:20:37.140 apologize, but he shouldn't because he's correct. And I think everyone in Britain, this sort of

00:20:42.720 understanding that he is correct because they can just look around their high street, as we would

00:20:46.360 call it, their main street, and see that it is different. It is no longer British, and we have 1.00

00:20:50.260 the right for our children to inherit a country that is British, that reflects them, that is a

00:20:55.760 perfectly sensible position to have.

The Culture War - Tim Pool - February 12, 2026

Trump To END ICE Surge In Minnesota, MAGA Says He's BACKING DOWN

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