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This entire Ice thing isn't about immigration... It's about Power over Blue States. Two other states with HUGE immigrant populations are Florida and Texas...I don't see Ice going there in a show of force..... Not like they are doing it in Blue States.


https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/january/ag-lawsuit/



Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, on behalf of the state and alongside the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and related agencies and officials, asking the court to end the unprecedented surge of DHS agents into the state and declare it unconstitutional and unlawful. They also ask the court for a temporary restraining order, citing the immediate harm the state and cities are facing.

In December 2025, the federal government initiated “Operation Metro Surge,” during which thousands of armed and masked DHS agents — including from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — have stormed the Twin Cities to conduct militarized raids and carry out dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional stops and arrests, all under the guise of lawful immigration enforcement. DHS agents have brazenly and repeatedly deployed excessive force against the people of Minnesota, spreading terror throughout the Twin Cities and beyond.

This surge has resulted in tangible harm to the state of Minnesota and its people, as well as the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. As a result of this surge, municipalities have been forced to divert local law enforcement resources away from their normal public safety duties, emergency responder resources have been strained, schools have been forced into lockdowns and closures, businesses have been forced to close, and the rights of Minnesotans have been violated time and time again.

The State and the cities allege the surge amounts to a violation of the First and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution, as well as the Constitution’s guarantee of equal sovereignty between state and federal governments. They also allege the surge violates the Administrative Procedure Act.

The State and the cities seek an end to Operation Metro Surge and the deployments of thousands of DHS agents to Minnesota, as well as an end to the unlawful behaviors of DHS agents within the state, including but not limited to:

using force against individuals peacefully engaging in constitutionally protected speech;
arresting, threatening and using force against innocent bystanders;
pointing firearms at individuals who pose no threat to DHS agents; and
carrying out enforcement actions at sensitive locations like schools, churches, hospitals.

“The unlawful deployment of thousands of armed, masked, and poorly trained federal agents is hurting Minnesota,” said Attorney General Ellison. “People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted. Schools have gone into lockdown. Businesses have been forced to close. Minnesota police are spending countless hours dealing with the chaos ICE is causing. This federal invasion of the Twin Cities has to stop, so today I am suing DHS to bring it to an end.”

“Minneapolis didn’t ask for this operation, but we’re paying the price,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “When federal actions undermine public safety, harm our neighbors, and violate constitutional rights, we have a responsibility to act. That’s exactly what we’re doing today.”

“Federal law enforcement’s occupation of our city is putting us all at risk,” said Saint Paul Mayor Kaohly Her. “They've come into Saint Paul and needlessly invaded our neighborhoods and homes; they’re targeting us based on what we look and sound like. Our residents are scared, and as local officials, we have a responsibility to act. Today we’re standing side by side with Minneapolis and the Attorney General to fight back.”
Operation Metro Surge is causing serious harm

The deployment of thousands of armed, masked DHS agents to Minnesota has resulted in serious harm to the state of Minnesota and its residents, as well as the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and DHS agents have committed numerous, significant violations of law.

Peaceful bystanders and law-abiding citizens have been arrested, had riot control munitions and chemical irritants used against them, had guns pointed at them, and more. Many United States citizens have been the victims of unlawful racial profiling by DHS agents due to the color of their skin or, in the words of one ICE agent, because “I can hear you don’t have the same accent as me.” These individuals are frequently handcuffed and detained for hours by DHS agents for no reason. Immigration agents have targeted individuals in sensitive locations, including schools, medical facilities, places of worship, daycares, and funeral homes.

And on January 7, 2026, a DHS agent shot and killed Renee Good.

The aggressive and often unlawful actions of DHS agents have caused fear and terror throughout the Twin Cities. Schools have been forced to go into lockdown to protect students. Business owners have closed their doors due to fear of DHS violence. Customer-facing businesses in Minneapolis are reporting decreases in revenues of 50-80% because their customer base was not comfortable to patronize the businesses due to the increased immigration enforcement.

Local and state law-enforcement resources in Minnesota are struggling to keep up with increased public-safety needs that the actions of thousands of armed, aggressive, and poorly trained DHS agents have caused. Police in Minnesota have had to respond to multiple incidents to maintain public safety where there is tension between people’s First Amendment right to protest peacefully and DHS agents’ aggressive and reckless actions. Minnesotans unsure if a DHS apprehension was an act of kidnapping have called 911, requiring a police response. DHS agents have abandoned the vehicles of individuals they detained in public roadways, requiring a police response.

On January 7, 2026, the Minneapolis Police Department began tracking overtime related to the increased public safety needs caused by DHS agents' reckless and aggressive immigration enforcement tactics and public reactions to the same. By January 9, 2026, Minneapolis Police officers had already worked more than 3,000 hours of overtime, and the estimated cost of overtime to taxpayers for the period between January 8 and January 11 is more than $2 million.

The coalition alleges that DHS agents’ actions violate the Tenth Amendment, which reserves to the states all powers not delegated to the federal government. This includes both policing powers and operation of schools. DHS agents have essentially commandeered police resources in Minnesota by forcing state and local law-enforcement agents to clean up the chaos that DHS agents have caused. Furthermore, the coalition alleges that the use of excessive force against the people of Minnesota, the warrantless arrests of individuals without an assessment of immigration status, and that targeting of individuals in sensitive locations is a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act’s prohibition against federal agency actions that are arbitrary and capricious.
Operation Metro Surge’s goal is to retaliate against political opponents

The Trump Administration’s decision to target Minnesota and the Twin Cities has been motivated by a desire to retaliate against perceived political enemies rather than good faith immigration enforcement, public safety, or law enforcement concerns. President Trump made this clear himself on January 9, when he stated Minnesota is “corrupt” and “crooked” because its officials accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner. “[T]hey’re crooked officials. . . . I feel that I won Minnesota all three times. I think I won it all three times . . . I won it all three times in my opinion . . . It’s a corrupt voter state . . . I won Minnesota three times and I didn’t get credit for it. That’s a crooked state.”

Immigration enforcement is clearly a pretext for the surge, as the percentage of Minnesota’s population that are noncitizen immigrants without legal status sits at roughly 1.5%, which is less than half of the national average. States like Utah, Texas, and Florida have higher percentages-of-population ratios of noncitizen immigrants, yet Utah, Texas, and Florida have seen no corresponding surge of federal agents. Indeed, the combined non-citizen immigrant populations of Utah, Texas, and Florida add up to nearly the size of the entire population of the state of Minnesota. Furthermore, if the goal of DHS was to detain and deport dangerous individuals as they claim, this would not be accomplished by their practice of stopping random people on the street to demand proof of citizenship. In fact, many of DHS’ arrestees in Minnesota lack any criminal convictions whatsoever.

Claims of fighting fraud are clearly a pretext as well, as immigration enforcement agents generally have no specialized expertise in combatting fraud and randomly stopping people on the street and demanding their papers does nothing to combat fraud. The Trump Administration’s citing “Feeding Our Future” as the reason for the deployment of federal agents also rings hollow, as it was a Minnesota state agency, the Department of Education, that originally alerted federal authorities to suspicious activities in 2020, during the first Trump Administration, and kept advocating for the federal government to work with the state in 2021 and 2022 to get the case charged. That case was one in which the state and federal resources worked together to bring wrongdoers to justice — but now, years later, the Trump Administration is trying to repurpose it as a foothold to attack an entire ethnic group and an entire state.

Operation Metro Surge instead fits the Trump Administration’s pattern of targeting Democratic municipalities, including Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and Washington-DC. Furthermore, the Trump Administration has made a habit of repeatedly and unlawfully attacking the state of Minnesota, both verbally and by attempting to illegally cut federal funding for programs the people of Minnesota rely on.

In the lawsuit, Attorney General Ellison and the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul allege this clear targeting of Minnesota due to the state’s voting habits and the political viewpoints of its leaders is a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution and its prohibitions against both viewpoint discrimination and retaliation for engaging in protected speech. They also allege the targeting of Minnesota violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal sovereignty of states, which requires that states must be treated equally by the federal government, and the Administrative Procedure Act, which bars agency actions that are arbitrary and capricious.

In addition to filing today’s lawsuit, the coalition filed for a temporary restraining order to obtain temporary protection from DHS’ unlawful actions as quickly as possible.

Yes, it has nothing to do with blue states.

That's why he is withholding ten billion dollars from five blue states over "possible fraud" in which there is zero evidence even happened in four out five states he is withholding funds from.

It's okay to admit trump targets blue states. I mean he told us he would.

Umm, that has nothing to do with Daman's statement, ICE, or the thread he just posted. There aren't even enough posts yet to take that left turn.

Go start a "Trump withholds funds" thread, you haven't started a new Trump thread in like 38 minutes.

BTW, I heard he sneezed yesterday and didn't say excuse me. If it's a slow news day, I would roll with that. You'll at least get some "dictator!" attaboys.

If you play your cards right, you can take the germ angle into some reminiscing of when he told everyone to drink bleach and eat horse meat straight from the can.

Trying to dismiss actual news and some of the crazy things trump does and says is par for the course for you. Your reaction is to shoot the messenger. Do I need to explain it to you that I'm using the word "shoot" figuratively or are you going to accuse me of lying by saying I'm claiming you shot me"?

You specifically quoted the part of Damon's post about trump targeting blue states while not targeting red states.

I gave you yet another example of it. Your sensitivity is showing again.

What if... and I know this sounds crazy, but what if you just posted about the subjects in every thread instead of trying to constantly hijack them with "this is another thing Trump did like the thing we're talking about"?

I mean, there are TWELVE threads on the first page of this section started by you... almost all about Trump.

Start a "Trump withholds funds" thread instead of hijacking this one with "other things Trump did".

I know English is hard for you but try this again....................




There are a lot more trump threads that could be started. I only choose to post the important ones.

I didn't "specifically quote part of his post, I quoted his entire response. All the words of his message. Let's read it...


If that makes you want to talk about fraud, so be it. Talk to yourself.

The entire thing is about how trump is targeting blue states. I gave you an example of how true that is by showing he targeted blue states by using fraud that there's no evidence of as a reason to cut funding to only blue states.

It fits every description of what you quoted and what you are claiming it should contain.

The funding is being cut under the accusation of fraud. But in FATEland posting about accusations of fraud by the trump administration isn't talking about fraud.

You need to narrow down your excuse. You mean it doesn't pertain specifically to the topic of fraud in Minnesota?

Maybe you didn't actually read my response.....


This entire thread is about fraud. Fraud in Minnesota. Now who is trying to police what people do and don't discuss?