US EditionColumn: Pam Bondi’s Offer to Minnesota Is Really a ‘Shakedown’
Pam Bondi proposes cutting ICE presence in Minneapolis if Minnesota grants voter-roll access amid DOJ's ongoing demands for election data compliance.
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Daily PressColumn: Pam Bondi’s offer to Minnesota is really a ‘shakedown’
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — offering to scale back ICE operations in exchange for the state’s compliance with her demands — is inappropriate and reads as a thinly veiled attempt at extortion. “Operation Metro Surge,” involving the deployment of some 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has wreaked havoc in the Twin Cities since December, and lawyers for the state have referred to Bondi’s lett…
The sentence comes after the mass protest of tens of thousands of Minnesota residents on Friday against operation Metro Surge, which is also opposed by the Democratic ruling class of the state.
The so-called Operation Metro Surge will continue in Minnesota in the face of a judge's refusal to stop immigration detentions
The state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul had jointly sued the U.S. government.
By MARGERY A. BECK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) — A federal judge has said she will not halt the increase in immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota and the Twin Cities as a lawsuit proceeds. Judge Katherine M. Menendez on Saturday denied a preliminary injunction sought in a lawsuit filed this month by state attorney general Keith Ellison and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The lawsuit argued that the Departmen…
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