"The 80-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota by the state's Attorney General Keith Ellison and the city attorneys for the two cities, names as defendants seven officials in President Donald Trump's administration, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons, and U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino."
"The complaint focuses on Operation Metro Surge, the name the Trump administration gave to its deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents from multiple DHS agencies to Minnesota, specifically to the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, an unprecedented surge that has involved [t]housands of armed and masked DHS agents [who] have stormed the Twin Cities to conduct militarized raids and carry out dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional stops and arrests in sensitive public places, including schools and hospitalsall under the guise of lawful immigration enforcement."
"This massive deployment of armed agents to Minnesota bears no connection to the federal government's claimed objective of fighting fraud, the complaint continues, and instead reflects an alarming escalation of the Trump Administration's retaliatory actions towards the state, an operation that is driven by nothing more than the Trump Administration's desire to punish political opponents and score partisan pointsat the direct expense of Plaintiffs' residents."
An 80-page federal lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota by Attorney General Keith Ellison and the city attorneys of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The lawsuit names seven Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, and U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino. The litigation challenges Operation Metro Surge, alleging thousands of armed and masked DHS agents conducted militarized raids and illegal, unconstitutional stops and arrests in sensitive public places, including schools and hospitals, and that the deployment was politically motivated retaliation rather than fraud-fighting. The surge followed protests after Renee Good’s fatal shooting by an ICE agent.
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