US EditionFederal Judge Declines to Halt Trump’s Immigration Surge in Minnesota
Judge Menendez ruled Minnesota failed to show federal immigration surge violates law, allowing 3,000 agents to continue enforcement amid allegations of civil rights abuses.
- U.S. District Judge Katherine M. Menendez on Saturday denied a preliminary injunction sought by Minnesota officials, allowing Operation Metro Surge to continue. The request was filed this month by Minnesota officials and the mayors of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
- Seeking to block the operation, Minnesota officials said the Department of Homeland Security violates the Tenth Amendment and uses retaliation after federal funding pressure.
- Federal filings show the operation deployed roughly 3,000 federal officers, with fatal shootings of Renee Good on Jan. 7 and Alex Pretti on Jan. 24 sparking protests and student walk-outs on Jan. 30.
- The judge limited her ruling to procedural standards by saying the order did not resolve Operation Metro Surge's legality and plaintiffs failed to show entitlement to preliminary injunction.
- The surge mirrors moves the administration has made in other cities, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said `This is what I would describe as a standard investigation by the FBI when there's circumstances like what we saw last Saturday`.
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The ruling rejects an immediate halt to the operation, while protests against the action continue in the streets.
More anti-ICE protests underway nationwide after judge declines to immediately halt Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Massive crowds of protesters are marching across the nation to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown Saturday — the same day a judge handed the federal government a win by denying a request to halt an operation that has seen thousands of agents dispatched to Minnesota’s Twin Cities and two people killed. Demonstrators from coast to coast are marking a second day of a nationwide stri…
The judge, however, found strong evidence that the ongoing federal operation "has had and will likely continue to have profound - even tragic - consequences for the State and its residents."
Immigration agents (ICE) will continue to be deployed in Minneapolis. This was decreed by a federal judge, who this Saturday dismissed the precautionary request to immediately stop the deployment of the so-called Operation Metro Surge.Continue reading...
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