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 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...
Minnesota's effort to end the surge is rejected as journalists are arrested, but pushback continues
As Operation Metro Surge continued on the streets of the Twin Cities, a federal judge on Saturday rejected a request from Minnesota, Minneapolis, St. Paul to end the Trump administration’s extreme immigration enforcement effort immediately.Under the surge, the Department of Homeland Security has sent about 3,000 federal officials to Minnesota this winter — upending life in the Twin Cities and prompting extensive pushback. Among the countless har…
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