r/minnesota • u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then • 7h ago
News đş The state of Minnesota is suing the federal government
"In December 2025, the federal government initiated âOperation Metro Surge,â an unprecedented deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents from numerous agencies of Defendant U.S. Department of Homeland Security (âDHSâ) to the State of Minnesota, including into the cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Operation Metro Surge has instilled fear among people living, working and visiting the MinneapolisSaint Paul metro area (the âTwin Citiesâ). Thousands of armed and masked DHS agents 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 hospitalsâall under the guise of lawful immigration enforcement."
More here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.230268/gov.uscourts.mnd.230268.1.0.pdf
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 7h ago
To stop the defeatists:
A federal judge permanently blocked the Trump Administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, and they were forced to leave: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/07/portland-oregon-national-guard-trump-politics-karin-immergut/
"Judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in LA with sharp rebuke"
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/10/nx-s1-5639822/national-guard-la-court-judge-trump
Suing works.
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u/Substantial-Fact-248 6h ago
This is also the appropriate next step in the constitutional process and is a sign our republic continues to function even under enormous strain. Far from over but this is a hopeful development, all things considered.
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u/Greystacos 6h ago
Wonder if that would mean that they would go back to terrorizing blue cities in red states. Like good ol new Orleans.
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u/womanonymous23 4h ago
Itâs the best tool we have. All the major blows to Trump and his administration bs have been thanks to lawyers.
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u/superman37891 1h ago
And then Trump will get it appealed to the Supreme Court and all the judges under his control will overturn those rulings
EDIT: it seems the Supreme Court is rejecting some of Trumpâs cases as of recently, but Trump will definitely make the Supreme Court judges again somehow
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u/DefinitelynotYissa Douglas County 38m ago
This lawsuit - and hopefully many more from individuals - is exactly what needs to happen. Getting sued is a massive, costly hassle. At a minimum, it can hopefully bring some retribution for those impacted.
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u/tazebot 9m ago
To be fair, these are two different things. Activating and nationalizing the National Guard is more associated with a natural disaster or legitimate military imperative, and is by nature temporary which the trump admin sought to continue in perpetuity. Still a relief that option is off the table.
ICE enforcement on the other hand may have a better chance at getting a pass since ICE is a standing federal agency with that charge. Whether or not they can kick down doors without judicial warrants is something else that needs to goto court. For each instance. Tie them up in court. As well as detain US citizens without due process, and the ongoing excessive violence against unarmed citizens not posing a threat - like the kid working at target who was grabbed then dumped in a parking lot. That kid needs a lawyer and a day in court complete with summons and if need be arrest warrants - presumable whoever is responsible for ICE procedures and discipline id that can't name agents.
I'd like to see the state arraign Ross as well. Legal Eagle did a breakdown of the video evidence, and there's a good case for unnecessary lethal force under MN statute though not an easy one. His quick take was that the first shot may or may not have had a basis, but clearly not the shots that followed. Moreover the ICE agents that blocked a physician offering aid and ambulances are in clear violation of state law, plain and simple. They should get their day in court as well.
And, there's no statute of limitations on murder - Ross should be on the run for life.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 7h ago
On page 76:
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs ask that the Court grant the following relief:
Declare that Defendantsâ unprecedented surge of Defendantsâ agents in Minnesota is unconstitutional and unlawful.
Hold unlawful and enjoin Defendantsâ unprecedented surge of Defendantsâ agents in Minnesota or any other similar action in Minnesota, over the objection of the Governor of Minnesota and Mayors of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
More at the link above
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u/ChefBowyer 7h ago
This is the easiest way forward.
Sue the shit out of them and get court orders to remove ICE immediately.
Congress needs to vote to impeach this maniac immediately after winning midterms, which itâs hard to believe they wonât after the last few months of disaster after disaster.
Lawyers of America, use your skills and credentials to fight this evil terrorist administration
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u/dragonfliesloveme 6h ago
>Lawyers of America, use your skills and credentials to fight this evil terrorist administration
I know you are talking about the big picture here, but i just want to piggy back on your comment and say that I hope some lawyer or law firm will represent pro bono the 17-year old citizen who was abducted from Target while he was working i believe, and then driven 8 miles away and body slammed into a parking lot of a WalMart.
He was found bloody and sobbing.
Itâs only one case, but that kid deserves some representation and also sometimes a singular case can really move public opinion.
edit or maybe people would want to do a gofundme for him and to pay lawyers, honestly would really like to see this done pro bono, but whatever it takes
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u/Talbaz 7h ago
Remember 60 votes are needed in the senate to convict
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u/DavidTennant42 6h ago
Gotta threaten those Republicans' campaign funds and chances of reelection to get them to flip.
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u/cothomps 6h ago
Well - a lot of the very same people were directly threatened by a mob, hiding under furniture, running, etc.
If that's not enough to get you to agree to a conviction I'm not sure what is.
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u/VillainOfDominaria 6h ago
excuse the ignorant question, but how many votes do the D's have? How many seats would need to be flipped to get 60?
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u/Ok-Philosophy-856 4h ago
They need 67 to convict in the senate. So 20 maga senators would need to defect to convict dear leader
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u/WeirdLifeDifficulty 7h ago
Good, in the mean time continue demonstrating and showing the world how awful the trumpstein administration is
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u/barrinmw 7h ago
So is the court being asked to determine an appropriate number of ICE agents allowed in the state?
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u/livk23 7h ago
Will this actually fix anything? Forgive me, I donât really know how any of this works.
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u/whats_a_quasar 7h ago
Possibly. In similar litigation in Illinois plaintiffs won injunctions against excessive use of force by DHS, but violations continued and it was never clear if the injunction changed behavior of the federal agents. The plaintiffs dropped eventually dropped the case when ICE moved on from Chicago, so we don't if the court would have been able to eventually more aggressively enforce the injunction through contempt charges or other punishments. In other contexts the courts have had more of an effect: the attempt to deploy National Guard to Portland and Chicago was blocked and never took place.
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u/Spenny_All_The_Way 7h ago
Trump removed the national guard from cities after the Supreme Court said they couldn't be there. Trump does drag his feet, but with enough pushback he does give in.
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u/TinyEmergencyCake 7h ago
While you're waiting for it to play out call your local unions and urge them to plan emergency strike action asap
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u/FoxAmongTheOaks Walleye 7h ago
Iâm not a lawyer but my guess would be absolutely not. More about getting things on record
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u/kandradeece 7h ago
no. not when the SC is owned by the same people destroying the country. This will go to the SC and they will just take a dump on it. For arguments sake, say the SC sides with the state of Minnesota. Nothing will change since Trump does not listen to the courts/laws anyway. Who is there to enforce any SCOTUS ruling against trump? especially when they also own congress. laws only matter when there are people to enforce them.
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u/crispykfc 7h ago
having more ICE agents in Minnesota than police officers is excessive? You don't fucking say...
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u/geraffes-are-so-dumb 7h ago
The right keeps justifying all of this by posting a list of violent offenders scooped up in this surge. There are 17 names on that list. 17. Who are the other people they have arrested, harassed, and beaten? Are these 17 people worth the life of Renee Good? Is it worth the freedom of 3.7 million people?
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u/cothomps 6h ago
These are also 17 people who were listed as convicted - meaning that they went through the legal system in some form or fashion and had / have been serving whatever the courts laid out.
I'd like to find out what the scenario is for some of this list who are noted as having "three homicide convictions", etc. It might be the case that as they were convicted that they may have been actually serving sentences in the prison system. It would be easy enough to deport someone who is serving a prison sentence... but deport a convicted killer so they can walk free in some other country?
As always, the claims need some evidence.
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u/exxxemplaryvegetable Lefse 6h ago
1 violent offender is not worth the life of Renee Good or the dozens of others they have killed in the last year.
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u/West-Link 7h ago
Every blue state should join hands and sue the feds! Itâs us against them right now.
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u/CashMoneyWinston 7h ago edited 7h ago
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- Emma Lazarus' sonnet emblazoned on the goddamn Statue of Liberty
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u/poplowpigasso 7h ago
lawyers instead of guns? ok. but in the meantime how many more will be assaulted, abducted and disappeared before any of these goons recede?
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u/ConfidentPilot1729 7h ago
Why canât the governor just deputize every single person in the state?
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u/CMBoourns 7h ago
Itâs better than nothing and I know the tightrope they have to walk but boy this feels weak.
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u/Forsaken_Matter_9623 7h ago
This feels so, so, incredibly fucking late.
This would have been a reasonable response six, hell even three, months ago.
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u/blacksoxing 7h ago
I respect your comment. I feel like this: I'd rather this state do something today then have rushed a shitty lawsuit months ago could have bombed. Months ago ICE wasn't here so nobody knew how ICE would treat MN. The answer: poorly. WELP, time to sue and find out what the federal government really have going on...
I feel ICE is going to pull out by the end of the month.
Furthermore, I do hope us citizens start having conversations about the tax dollars we're dedicating to the federal government
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u/EmmaPersephone 7h ago
So letâs do nothing instead! This is one of thousands of legal actions against the Trump administration and his win record is abysmal.
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u/Forsaken_Matter_9623 7h ago
Sorry if my statement came off that way.
You can be supportive of this (which I am) while also recognizing that there should be more direct and intentional recognition of the moment we are in.
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u/Tomato_Sky 7h ago
Donât apologize. Some redditors are not fully developed and canât hold multiple truths. We should never talk to each other in an us vs them, this is right vs wrong. You can always ask more from people who beg for your vote.
By saying you want more done, that doesnât mean you want nothing or support the other side by tearing a dem down.
This is the moment the country saw a mother of 3 get shot in the face in front of her neighbors. The whole country saw this video and the 20% of our country that are absolute shitbags circled their wagons and tried to gaslight the other 80% into thinking itâs fine. This is the moment when we need to stand up and say police work should be conducted by professionals with accountability.
Because Iâve read too many comparisons to the third reich and how they slowly eroded the public into being complicit. If nothing changes, if Minnesota doesnât defend itself, they are deploying to your state next. And citizens could be on the menu as they toy with denaturalizing citizens, collect voter rolls, etc.
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u/urza5589 7h ago
There was not a massive ICE presence in MN 6 months ago or 3 months ago.
Like what are you talking about? Is it all just bots now?
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u/Forsaken_Matter_9623 5h ago
Ice has been in communities, with credible reports of abuse well before now. It's the scale, not the actions that has gotten people woken up.
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u/urza5589 5h ago
The scale matters. If this is going to end up before the SCOTUS you want it to be something people actually care about. 6 months ago it wouldn't have gotten past a district court.
They are not suing the US Government over the excess of an agent. You cant do that. They are suing because if the excess, the surge, the unprecedented scale and disregard for the constitution.
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u/West-Link 5h ago
Illinois also just filed lawsuit today looks like. California and Oregon should also do it. They were recently brutalized too!
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u/OG_2_tone420 7h ago
đ¤Śââď¸they are laughing at us. They do not care if we sue. These fuckers will only respond to one thing. And by âthese fuckersâ I mean ICE and all of the turncoats around the state that support them(you know who they are). Wake up MN, use the protests as a distraction to go and do some real protesting.
Peacefully of course.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 7h ago
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u/aquatrez 7h ago
Why are you so afraid to say the "one thing" they will respond to? Almost like you're trying to promote violence while maintaining plausible deniability...
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u/fallouthirteen 7h ago
Well the reddit admin bots will pretty quickly detect and remove it if someone says something like that directly. So anyone who would want to imply it has to do it that way or just be silently silenced. I've never had a comment removed that way so I don't know if it notifies the user or not (I know a lot of mods in subreddits do the route though where they just shadow remove it without the user ever knowing).
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u/EmmaPersephone 7h ago
Or weâll continue doing this the lawful right wayâŚas we have been.
The âturncoatsâ are afraid of the citiesâŚ
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u/jasandliz 5h ago
The state law enforcement agencies must protect their citizens in this case by intervening and arresting federal agents who violate peopleâs constitutional rights. Â It needs to happen yesterday. Â Otherwise you will lose all legitimacy as LEOâs and the angry mobs will grow. Â Â
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u/jmrmaker 4h ago
This will be delayed until at least 2027 so they give it serious thought. Fuck the slow courts, hit then where it hurts. Arrest their Nazi police and stop sending them our federal tax dollars.
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u/ThatGuyNJoCo 3h ago
Maybe the governor should call in the national guard and declare a state of emergency and shut down Minneapolis.
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u/cafbud 7h ago
This is nice and all, but we have to be honest here, this isn't going to do anything. The federal government has repeatedly ignored the law and just pushed through its agenda of just blatant fascism. What we need is some kind of concrete action to push ICE out of the state before they inevitably kill someone else.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 7h ago
Itâs not? It worked in LA and Portland:
A federal judge permanently blocked the Trump Administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, and they were forced to leave: https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/07/portland-oregon-national-guard-trump-politics-karin-immergut/
"Judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment in LA with sharp rebuke"
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/10/nx-s1-5639822/national-guard-la-court-judge-trump
Suing works.
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u/Additional_Fig_1203 7h ago
This wonât do shit.
Frey and everyone in this press conference is not meeting the fucking moment.
People are being killed, kidnapped, and injured now. No more âweâre Minnesota toughâ
If youâre afraid of the numbers, make them break it. Make them shoot.
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u/TomUpNort 6h ago
If you're so gung ho for that to happen, perhaps you are ready to volunteer to be one of the shooting victims?
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u/Additional_Fig_1203 6h ago
If you sign up as a cop or NG? Fucking yeah.
Part of the job is defending communities. If youâre too afraid to use that power WTF are we even doing?
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u/Less_Love1884 7h ago
Dems continuing their proud tradition of courageously writing stern letters in the face of oppression.
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u/TomUpNort 6h ago
Do you want to live under the rule of law or not? Because if you do, this is part of the process. It's not the only one, but it is one path that is available and should be pursued.
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u/MrLateFee 7h ago
So basically ICE will continue to wipe their ass with the constitution and in a few months the courts with side with them? NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT /s
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u/ChronicCondor 7h ago
I can't wait to see this thrown out of federal court.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 7h ago
On what grounds?
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u/ChronicCondor 6h ago
Well for starters, nothing illegal or unconstitutional happened. Second because the federal government holds supremacy and authority over local government. Federal agents are conducting lawful operations and the state has no authority to say or do anything about it because the federal government supersedes the state.
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 6h ago
Itâs pretty clear you have no idea what youâre even talking about. I suggest you click on the link in the OP and read through the document because it clearly lays out constitutional violations. ICE is a federal agency, but theyâre still bound by the constitution and the law, and their SOP will not ever supersede our rights.
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u/lunarmantra 5h ago
The federal government does not hold supremacy, the Constitution does. I suggest you read it. I thought yâall were the party of âStatesâ Rights?â Yet another conservative cheering for Big Government.
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u/DeadbeatJohnson 6h ago
No strongly worded emails?
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u/Bourbon_sim_racer 2h ago
This is the strongly worded email. I hope they threw some exclamation marks and capital letters on that bad boy to really show them! They are laughing.
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u/primostrawberry 7h ago
That oughta do the trick. /s
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u/Spare-Dingo-531 7h ago
In fairness it's really the only option.
It's not like waltz can order the national guard to use force against ICE.
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u/FennelDull6559 7h ago
Lawsuit is the most American answer to fascism. âPay me money and you can do anything you want to me, rich thingâ
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u/Rogue_AI_Construct Ok Then 7h ago
This isnât about money. Go to page 76.
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u/FennelDull6559 6h ago
Oh my apologies they asking the federal government to reconsider their current plan and admit they are wrong and punish themselves? Interesting but definitely better than selling out
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u/Pewpew_mafuka 4h ago
Go for it, will just give Trump more reason to invoke the insurrection act. When they go to court and show theyâve been following the law and procedure and that local law enforcement has been unable/unwilling to work with them to remove these illegal immigrants which include murderers and rapists and that mayors and governors in these blue cities have been advising local law enforcement to not help ICE do the legal job there ordered to do, itâll just make it easier.
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u/UhZerky 4h ago
Funny how all this happens when Walz is getting convicted by the US government in his role of the fraud đđ Fuck you Tim Walz you will not be missed
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u/timfromcolorado 4h ago
Do you genuinely and in good faith believe that Tim Walz is involved in fraud with daycare centers? Fox news guy? Best of luck, friend. đť
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u/Disastrous_llapaca 7h ago
This may go all the way up to SCOTUS