Minnesota leaders sue Trump Administration to end deployment of immigration agents in the state
MINNEAPOLIS (NBC, KYMA) - Minnesota is suing the federal government in an effort to end the deployment of immigration agents to the state.
The lawsuit, filed Monday by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, names officials with the DHS, ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection as defendants, and alleges that the deployment of thousands of agents violates the First and 10th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
"Immigration enforcement agents aren't trained to investigate fraud and randomly stopping people on the street because you don't like their accent isn't going to stop fraud. So enforcing federal immigration law and fighting fraud are just pretext for this surge. The real reason it's no secret, Donald Trump and his administration have been targeting people, cities and states that don't agree with them politically."
Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General
"If the goal was immigration enforcement, if the goal were simply to look for people that are undocumented, Minneapolis and St. Paul would not be the place where you would go. There are countless more people that are undocumented in Florida and Texas and Utah. Why are they in these much smaller cities in the middle of the Midwest? The answer is very clear. It is politics. Florida and Texas and Utah are Republican states."
Mayor Jacob Frey (D-Minn.)
It comes one day after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said more federal officers are heading to the state amid protests over the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer.
Illinois also announced a lawsuit against the Trump Administration Monday, alleging in a that immigration agents deployed in the city are using "unlawful and dangerous tactics."
