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First, how could a federal court do so? The Constitution and numerous laws give Los Federales the power to conduct immigration enforcement. And then there’s the idiocy that was argued

Judge denies Minnesota’s request for immediate end to immigration crackdown

A judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, rejecting pleas from state officials who said the campaign was stepping on their sovereignty and endangering the public.

Sovereignty? When it comes to any immigration the federal government has all the power. The States are assigned none. Even if Los Federales assign some to the states the feds still are in charge. Democrats made this quite clear during the Arizona SB1070 issue

Minnesota and the Twin Cities had not definitively shown that the administration’s decision to flood the state with thousands of agents was unlawful or designed to force local officials into cooperating with the administration’s objectives, U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez said in her ruling.

Although Menendez acknowledged evidence that immigration agents had engaged in acts of racial profiling, excessive force and other disruptions in nearly all aspects of Minnesotans’ lives, the judge stressed she was not tasked with ruling on any of those claims. Menendez said the Trump administration also had presented plausible arguments for the need for its enforcement operation, dubbed Operation Metro Surge.

“The Court is particularly reluctant to take a side in the debate about the purpose behind Operation Metro Surge,” she wrote. “Not only is it difficult to identify a single motivation for a significant multifaceted operation, but doing so would venture into a uniquely controversial political question.”

Although the judge did not grant a preliminary injunction to end the immigration crackdown, she noted in her 30-page opinion that she was not making a final determination on the state’s claims until the lawsuit is heard fully.

Even if she, a Biden appointee, can find a way to tell Trump to end the operation, she’ll lose on appeal. Like has happened almost every single time a liberal judge has ruled against Trump.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) also emphasized that the decision was not the last word in the case.

“We’re obviously disappointed in the court’s ruling today, but this case is in its infancy and there is much legal road in front of us, so we’re fighting on,” Ellison said in a statement. “We’re not letting up in defending our state’s constitutional powers.”

What constitutional powers? Immigration is in the federal Constitution as a power to pass laws by the US Congress, and, if the duly elected president signs the legislation/Congress overrides a veto it is now up to the Executive Branch to enforce. Nothing in the Minnesota Constitution would override the federal Constitution when it comes to immigration. Keith should know this, but, then, he’s speaking to his idiot voters. Here’s an idea: hand over illegals who were caught breaking the law to ICE and you won’t have to worry about big operations.

Still, Menendez — named to the bench by President Joe Biden in 2021 — concluded that there could be legitimate reasons for the surge, including the administration’s stated goals of cracking down on fraud and undocumented residents in the state.

“The Court can readily imagine scenarios where the federal executive must legitimately vary its use of law enforcement resources from one state to the next, and there is no precedent for a court to micromanage such decisions,” she wrote.

And maybe if Democrat politicians wouldn’t push the little Comrades to do what they’ve been doing out in the streets, harassing federal law enforcement, doxxing them, mobbing them, interfering, etc, no one would be endangered.

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