A day after the Trump administration promised to remove 700 federal law enforcement officers from Minnesota, residents who were hopeful that the immigration crackdown might be waning said that they saw little sign of a withdrawal.

To many Minnesotans, it was as if there had been no reduction in agents at all. One community organizer in Minneapolis said that sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on her Signal chats were as frequent as ever. On social media, neighbors shared videos from an early-morning raid on an apartment building in Minneapolis involving more than a dozen federal agents. Teams of ICE personnel were spotted in the suburbs, making arrests near schools and in homes, local officials said.

More than 2,000 immigration agents still remain in the Twin Cities area, according to Tom Homan, the White House border czar. This week, Mr. Homan did not provide a timeline for a full drawdown of the crackdown, called Operation Metro Surge. The operation began more than two months ago and has netted more than 4,000 arrests, the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday.

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School districts in Duluth and Fridley have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully sending federal agents to schools and bus stops in Minnesota. At many schools across the Twin Cities, classroom attendance has dwindled as families elect online learning out of fear. Others have started sending their children to school with passports around their necks.

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