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   U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez said in a Wednesday hearing that   
   there wasn’t enough time to make an informed ruling on state officials’   
   request for an injunction on “further legal violations and unlawful   
   escalations” by federal agents reporting to Homeland Security Secretary   
   Kristi Noem.   
      
   Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and legal representatives for   
   the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul filed suit on Monday to stop what   
   multiple state and local officials have called a “federal invasion.”   
      
   Menendez did not outright reject Ellison and his co-plaintiffs’ claims,   
   saying only that she needed more time to fully consider the facts of the   
   case, KSTP reported. She asked the federal government for its response   
   to the suit by Monday and for the state to file a reply by Jan. 22. A   
   ruling could follow soon after.   
      
   In other legal news, Chris Madel, a Republican candidate for Minnesota   
   governor, told the Star Tribune that he was providing legal counsel to   
   Jonathan Ross, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who   
   fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.   
      
   Madel said he is still running for governor and that he wanted to help   
   Ross get legal representation from the U.S. Department of Justice.   
      
   Outside the courtroom, a cold front sweeping through Minnesota had   
   little apparent effect on the thousands of ICE and U.S. Border Patrol   
   agents working in the Twin Cities and outstate. Federal law enforcement   
   activity spread into smaller Minnesota communities, with agents active   
   this week in Detroit Lakes, Circle Pines and multiple Twin Cities   
   suburbs.   
      
   St. Paul Public Schools announced on Wednesday it would provide a   
   virtual learning option beginning Jan. 22 for students who do not feel   
   comfortable coming to school amid the surge in federal agents.   
   Minneapolis Public Schools plan to offer a remote learning option for   
   students through at least Feb. 12.   
      
   In Minneapolis, bystander video posted to City Council President Elliott   
   Payne’s social media accounts showed agents shoving him off the sidewalk   
   as he met with other local officials near the intersection of Central   
   and Lowry avenues.   
      
   Payne told CBS News he was filming a public service announcement with   
   state Sen. Dorian Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, and City Council Member Jason   
   Chavez.   
      
   Meanwhile, immigration enforcement may be ramping up at the Hennepin   
   County Medical Center, the state’s largest public safety net hospital,   
   and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.   
      
   MPR News reported Wednesday that ICE agents were entering hospitals with   
   detainees, sometimes without warrants, and — according to five Hennepin   
   Healthcare nurses who asked to remain anonymous — sitting in on patient   
   appointments.   
      
   An anonymous Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport employee shared   
   a memo with FOX 9 detailing plans for ICE agents to spend three weeks at   
   the hub checking travelers’ and employees’ documents.   
      
   A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Commission told FOX 9 in a   
   statement that “federal regulations provide federal agents with broad   
   access to MSP Airport property [including] the airfield, pre- and   
   post-security areas in the terminals and public spaces like parking   
   ramps and lots.”   
      
   Federal authorities are also stepping up their efforts to move detainees   
   not released soon after their arrest for one reason or another through   
   the legal process. The Pentagon plans to dispatch at least 25 military   
   judges to Minnesota, according to CNN, while MPR News reported   
   immigration enforcement agencies appear to have dramatically increased   
   deportation flights out of the state.   
      
   ICE appears to need all the help it can get on the ground, too. The   
   agency hired independent journalist and Army veteran Laura Jedeed   
   apparently without even a cursory check of her vocally anti-ICE online   
   presence, Jedeed revealed in an engrossing article for the online   
   magazine Slate.   
      
   “It takes about five seconds of Googling to figure out how I feel about   
   ICE, the Trump administration, and the country’s general right-wing   
   project,” Jedeed wrote. In other words, too much time for an agency with   
   more money than it knows what to do with.   
      
      
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