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JUST IN : 30 MINS AGO Minnesota suing trump to block surge of immigration agents!
JUST IN:30 mins ago Minnesota suing trump to block surge of immigration agents!
The state accused the Republican administration of racially profiling its citizens and of targeting Minnesota because of its Democratic leanings.
State officials said they would ask the court to impose a temporary restraining order on the federal surge as soon as Tuesday, when a hearing will be held.
“The deployment of thousands of armed, masked DHS agents to Minnesota has done our state serious harm. This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota and it must stop,” Ellison told a press conference, referring to Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
Illinois filed a similar federal lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday over what Democratic Governor JB Pritzker called DHS’s “dangerous use of force.” The Illinois lawsuit asks the court to block U.S. Customs and Border Protection from conducting civil immigration enforcement in the state while seeking to curb tactics such as the use of tear gas, trespassing on private property and the concealing of license plates to mask official operations.
For years, these corrupt, activist politicians have refused to protect Minnesotans and are now proposing illegal actions to keep their stranglehold on control and continue stealing from American citizens. We will root out this rampant fraud, we will arrest the criminal illegal aliens hurting Americans with impunity, and we will hold those who aid and abetted this criminality accountable,” Noem said on
The Republican administration has deployed federal law enforcement officers into several cities and states largely governed by Democrats in what Trump says is a crackdown on illegal immigration and other crimes including corruption. Democratic leaders in turn have accused Trump of a politically motivated abuse of power.
