"Agents have stopped countless people and demanded, in effect, that they show their papers-in America. We have seen door-to-door searches where agents barge into people's homes without cause. We have seen stores shuttered, markets shut down, restaurants under siege, employees afraid to go to work, and students afraid to go to school. We will be living with the scars from these abuses for years to come."
"That is why my office sued the Trump administration. We sought a restraining order to halt Operation Metro Surge in its tracks. The lawsuit that we filed was, to my mind, necessitated by the federal government's unprecedented abuse of the Constitution and by President Trump's overt promise of "retribution" against the state of Minnesota. We have been able to marshal facts to show that the reason Trump's domestic army has flooded our state is not because we have an especially large population of undocumented immigrants."
Operation Metro Surge is a large federal immigration deployment in Minnesota that led to lethal force incidents, community disruption, and civil-rights harms. Federal agents killed two residents in two weeks and carried out stops, door-to-door searches, and warrantless entries that frightened families and workers. Businesses, markets, restaurants, and schools experienced closures or fear-driven absences. The attorney general's office sued the Trump administration and sought a restraining order, alleging constitutional violations including politically motivated targeting that violates the First Amendment and federal overreach that infringes Minnesota's Tenth Amendment sovereignty. The lawsuit claims the operation targets political enemies rather than populations of undocumented immigrants.
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