MINNEAPOLIS — Within hours of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s announcement on Monday that White House border czar Tom Homan would be the point man for immigration operations in Minnesota, Homan and two other top homeland security officials were on the ground in what had become an embattled city, beginning to work on a comeback plan.

Less than a week ago, tensions in the Minnesota city were already high. U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good had been shot by an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer while driving her car and impeding police operations. Both ICE and Border Patrol agents had engaged in countless clashes with protesters, as well as agitators determined to stop the arrests of illegal immigrants across the region. Relations between activists and immigration officers were worse than when personnel deployed to Chicago last year, with no sign of the thousands of visiting federal police planning to leave town any time soon.