XPost: mn.politics, alt.law-enforcement, alt.politics.republicans   
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   From: j63840576@gmail.com   
      
   Lawfare Review wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Well shit. They tried to bag a fucking elephant instead of a mule deer.   
   Violation of state sovereignty? .   
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