New Delhi, Jan. 27 -- US President Donald Trump has dispatched his top border official, Tom Homan, to Minnesota as his administration faces mounting political, legal and public pressure over a hardline immigration crackdown that has triggered mass protests and the fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal agents. The move signals an effort by the White House to regain control over a rapidly escalating crisis that has turned Minneapolis into a flashpoint in the national immigration debate.

Tom Homan (born November 28, 1961) is a veteran American law-enforcement official and one of the most hardline figures in US immigration policy. A former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homan rose to national promine...