U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will reduce the number of federal immigration agents in Minnesota by 700, White House border czar Tom Homan announced on Wednesday.

Trump has deployed thousands of armed immigration agents in and around Minneapolis this year, drawing protests. Homan said he was partially drawing down the deployment because he was seeing “unprecedented” co-operation from Minnesota’s elected sheriffs who run county jails.

“Let me be clear, President Trump fully intends to achieve mass deportations during this administration, and immigration enforcement actions will continue every day throughout this country,” Homan said at a news conference. “President Trump made a promise. And we have not directed otherwise.”