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   From: noreply@dirge.harmsk.com   
      
   Local officials had argued that the decision to send some 3,000   
   immigration agents to Minnesota amounted to a violation of state   
   sovereignty.   
      
   Minnesota outright failed to protect "state sovereignty" and engaged   
   in fraud misusing federal funds.   
      
   Minnesota simply practices selective law enforcement that favors   
   progressive agendas, screw everyone else.   
      
   A federal judge in Minnesota denied a request by the state government   
   and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Saturday to temporarily   
   block a surge of federal immigration agents that has led to three   
   shootings, thousands of arrests and weeks of protests.   
      
   The judge, Kate M. Menendez, who was nominated to the bench by President   
   Joseph R. Biden Jr., had resisted requests by state lawyers for an   
   immediate ruling on halting the Trump administration’s immigration   
   enforcement campaign, known as Operation Metro Surge, which began late   
   last year.   
      
   The state and the cities argued in a lawsuit filed on Jan. 12 that the   
   decision to send some 3,000 immigration agents to Democratic-led   
   Minnesota over the objections of local officials amounted to a violation   
   of state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment. They also described the   
   deployment as an illegal attempt to coerce them into cooperating with   
   civil immigration enforcement. The Trump administration dismissed that   
   legal theory and defended their actions as a lawful campaign to crack   
   down on illegal immigration.   
      
   Judge Menendez wrote that the state and local governments had failed to   
   show that the deployment crossed a constitutional line and therefore had   
   not met the burden for a preliminary injunction.   
      
   “Plaintiffs have provided no metric by which to determine when lawful   
   law enforcement becomes unlawful commandeering, simply arguing that the   
   excesses of Operation Metro Surge are so extreme that the surge exceeds   
   whatever line must exist,” she wrote, referencing a courtroom exchange   
   with a lawyer for the state. “A proclamation that Operation Metro Surge   
   has simply gone ‘so far on the other side of the line’ is a thin reed on   
   which to base a preliminary injunction.”   
      
   Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, celebrated the ruling on   
   social media in a series of posts that described several recent arrests   
   made by immigration agents in Minnesota.   
      
   “This is a win for public safety and law and order,” Ms. Noem said of   
   the judge’s decision.   
      
   Officials with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and the city of   
   St. Paul did not immediately respond to requests for comment on   
   Saturday. Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said he was disappointed in   
   the decision, and his office indicated that the city would continue   
   pursuing the lawsuit.   
      
   “This decision doesn’t change what people here have lived through —   
   fear, disruption and harm caused by a federal operation that never   
   belonged in Minneapolis in the first place,” Mr. Frey said in a   
   statement.   
      
   The lawsuit was filed days after a federal agent in Minneapolis shot and   
   killed Renee Good, a U.S. citizen. After the first hearing on the case,   
   agents shot two more people in the city. On Jan. 14, an agent shot and   
   injured a Venezuelan man who officials said was in the country illegally   
   and had resisted arrest. And last Saturday, agents shot and killed Alex   
   Pretti, a U.S. citizen and intensive-care nurse.   
      
   Lindsey Middlecamp, a lawyer for the state, reiterated the call for   
   swift action in a court hearing on Monday, asking the judge to stop what   
   she called an “invasion” of federal agents.   
      
   Ms. Middlecamp called on the judge to “issue a temporary restraining   
   order today. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today.” Hours after the   
   hearing ended, Judge Menendez requested an additional written brief from   
   the federal government and gave them until Wednesday evening to file it.   
      
   Judge Menendez said in court that “I think it goes without saying that   
   we are in shockingly unusual times.” But she pressed lawyers for the   
   state to explain when, in its view, the federal government deploying   
   federal agents to enforce federal law could become a constitutional   
   affront. The state did not seek an end to all immigration enforcement in   
      
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