Partial Drawdown In Minnesota, NPR Poll: Trump and ICE, Nuclear Treaty Expires

700 federal agents are leaving Minnesota. The agents who remain want more access to a local jail. Does the administration have a plan for immigration enforcement with less chaos? I'm Leila Faudel. That's Stevens Keep, and this is Up First from NPR News. Surveys used to show that border enforcement was the president's strongest issue. Now that Americans see how the administration is operating, two thirds disapprove. Even the president said briefly that he learned from the public response. I learned that, maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch, but you still have to be tough. Also, the last major nuclear arms treaty between The US and Russia expires today. What happens now? Stay with us. We've got the news you need to start your day. Support for NPR and the following message comes from Rippling. Tired of using HR systems that feel fragmented in manual? Rippling unifies HR, IT, IT, and finance into a single platform to run your business. In as little as ninety seconds, Rippling can onboard a new employee automatically setting up payroll, benefits, devices, and corporate cards all from one place. It's a simpler way to run your business. Head to rippling.com/first and sign up today. That's rippling.com/first. This message comes from NPR sponsor, Mattress Firm. If you're waking up sore or unrested, your mattress may be the problem. Mattress Firm's sleep experts will help you find the perfect mattress like the Tempur Pedic Adapt, delivering pressure relieving support designed to help alleviate aches and pains. Shop Mattress Firm's Presidents' Day Sale and save up to $500 on select Tempur Pedic adjustable mattress sets with next day delivery. Restrictions apply. Next day delivery available on select mattresses and subject to location. See store for details. White House border czar Tom Homan says 700 federal agents will be leaving Minnesota. It's the beginning of a retreat from a state where federal agents confronted protesters and killed two Americans. But most agents that were brought in are still there, and Homan says any further drawdown would depend on state and local cooperation. Let's talk about that with NPR's Meg Anderson who's in Minneapolis. Meg, good morning. Good morning. How much is really changing? Yeah. So the numbers don't point to a big change. It still leaves around 2,300 federal agents here. That's still more than the combined Twin Cities police force. It's more than the number they originally brought in before Renee Macklin Goode was killed by a NICE agent. Homan did say he wants to see the presence of ICE officers in the state go back to what it was before the surge began. And he said he wants that partly because ICE has plans for operations in other parts of the country. We got agents here from LA, New York, and Portland. There's problems there too. So we wanna get people back to home station and force immigration laws in those areas. Homan specifically zeroed in on the cooperation of sheriffs. …