"Most people where I come from know the opening narration to the television show Law and Order by heart: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. [ Ding-ding]" But what happens when federal terrorists masquerading as law enforcement are the ones committing the crimes, and the district attorneys and judges are ignored by the federal government?"
"State Attorney General Keith Ellison filed one to halt ICE's occupation of the Twin Cities, and it received a hearing earlier this week. In a separate lawsuit, Chief District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz ordered the acting ICE director, Todd Lyons, to appear in his courtroom and answer for the unlawful arrests and detentions carried out by ICE, in violation of the right to due process."
Federal immigration agents are conducting an operation called Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis-St. Paul that local people describe as an occupation. Federal agents are accused of masquerading as law enforcement while committing unlawful arrests, detentions, deportations, kidnappings, harassment, and brutality. Multiple lawsuits have been filed: the Minnesota attorney general sought to halt ICE's presence; a federal judge ordered the acting ICE director to appear over due-process violations; and civil-rights groups filed class actions. Despite these legal challenges, lawsuits have neither stopped ICE nor shifted federal policy, and local residents have taken to the streets to represent themselves against ICE.
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