The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the Trump administration, arguing the unprecedented federal immigration operation in the state is “a federal invasion,” and seeking a court order halting the crackdown, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
“This has to stop; it just has to stop,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a Monday news conference announcing the lawsuit.
The suit was filed shortly after Illinois and the city of Chicago also sued the Trump administration, alleging the Department of Homeland Security has terrorized residents in “organized bombardment.”
Both suits argue the federal government is violating the Tenth Amendment.
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The federal government initially launched Operation Metro Surge, an immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, in December to target undocumented Somalis, but immigrants from other nations have also been arrested.
Around 1,000 additional US Customs and Border Protection agents are expected to deploy to Minneapolis, according to two federal law enforcement sources. The agents started deploying Friday and continued over the weekend, one of the sources said, coming on top of a deployment of about 2,000 federal agents to the area that CNN reported early last week.
“As long as federal agents are in our city acting unconstitutionally against our neighbors, we will continue to push back with everything we got,” Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Monday.
The lawsuit claims Operation Metro Surge is not a legitimate law enforcement action, but a retaliation effort against Democratic-led Minnesota, citing the president’s disparaging comments toward local officials.
“President Trump expressed the root of his displeasure in plain terms during a recorded interview: he essentially claimed that Minnesota is ‘corrupt’ and ‘crooked’ because its officials accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner,” the lawsuit says, citing a January 9 interview by the president.
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National-level tensions mounted Sunday morning as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called on Minnesota officials to “grow up,” following their complaints that federal agencies aren’t cooperating with state and local officials investigating Good’s killing.
The Justice Department has blocked state investigators from participating in what initially was meant to be a joint FBI and state criminal investigation, state officials said.
Noem homed in on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Frey, Democrats she said have politicized the shooting and encouraged “destruction” and “violence” in the city.
“They have inflamed the public,” Noem said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.
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