{"id":198900,"date":"2026-02-01T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/judge-denies-minnesotas-request-to-end-ice-surge-in-minneapolis-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:38:03","slug":"judge-denies-minnesotas-request-to-end-ice-surge-in-minneapolis-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/judge-denies-minnesotas-request-to-end-ice-surge-in-minneapolis-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Minnesota\u2019s request to end ICE surge in Minneapolis – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal immigration operation has resulted in government agents killing two people, sparking weeks of protests
A federal judge has denied a request by Minnesota<\/a>\u2019s state government to end the federal immigration operation in Minneapolis that has resulted in government agents killing two people<\/a>, sparking weeks of protests.
The state, along with the cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, had lodged a lawsuit after the death of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE<\/a>) agent this month, demanding an end to the Trump administration\u2019s Operation Metro Surge in the city.
Since that time, a second person protesting ICE\u2019s presence, Alex Pretti, was shot and killed by federal agents. The shootings have provoked a furious wave of condemnation in Minneapolis<\/a> and beyond.
However, on Saturday, federal judge Kate Menendez denied a request by the state and cities to end the operation and send the 3,000 ICE agents home.
The plaintiffs had argued that the Trump administration<\/a> violated the 10th amendment of the constitution, which enshrines states\u2019 autonomy from federal intervention beyond powers outlined in the constitution, through the ICE operation.
But these claims \u201cprovided no metric by which to determine when lawful law enforcement becomes unlawful commandeering, simply arguing that the excesses of Operation Metro Surge are so extreme that the surge exceeds whatever line must exist\u201d, wrote Menendez<\/a>, who was nominated to the bench during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency in 2021.
\u201cA proclamation that Operation Metro Surge has simply gone \u2018so far on the other side of the line\u2019 is a thin reed on which to base a preliminary injunction.\u201d
Menendez acknowledged that the operation has had a \u201cprofound and even heartbreaking\u201d impact upon Minneapolis and that along with the shootings there was \u201cevidence that ICE and CBP (Customs and Border Protection) agents have engaged in racial profiling, excessive use of force, and other harmful actions\u201d.
But the judge said that she was not ruling on the tactics of the operation itself, only that the state and cities had failed to show that the administration had violated the 10th amendment.
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement that he was disappointed by the ruling.
\u201cThis decision doesn\u2019t change what people here have lived through \u2013 fear, disruption, and harm caused by a federal operation that never belonged in Minneapolis in the first place,\u201d Frey said. \u201cThis operation has not brought public safety. It\u2019s brought the opposite and has detracted from the order we need for a working city. It\u2019s an invasion, and it needs to stop.\u201d
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, posted<\/a> on X that the ruling was a \u201cHUGE\u201d win for the administration.
\u201cNeither sanctuary policies nor meritless litigation will stop the Trump Administration from enforcing federal law in Minnesota<\/a>,\u201d Bondi wrote.
Brian Carter, a lawyer for Minnesota, had said that \u201cthis situation is unprecedented in the 250-year history of our country\u201d and that the agents were \u201cessentially an army\u201d sent to Minneapolis to undertake \u201cwidespread illegal violent conduct\u201d.
Trump himself has said that Ice is \u201cgoing to de-escalate a little bit\u201d in the wake of the shootings, with the president sending border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis to oversee the operation. But the administration has insisted the ICE agents are acting legally to uphold federal immigration laws.
The ruling comes as more than 300 demonstrations<\/a> are expected to take place across all 50 states and Washington DC on Saturday in what organizers are calling \u201cICE Out of Everywhere\u201d.
Organizers, led by the national grassroots organization 50501, say today\u2019s protests are a response to a series of recent deaths involving federal immigration agents, including the fatal shootings of Pretti<\/a> and Good<\/a> in Minneapolis earlier this month, the homicide of Geraldo Campos<\/a> in an immigration detention facility in Texas and the shooting of Keith Porter Jr<\/a> by an off-duty ICE officer in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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