Judge Allows Ice’s Operation Metro Surge To Continue In Minnesota

A national judge connected Saturday declined to instantly halt Operation Metro Surge, allowing nan sweeping national migration enforcement effort to proceed successful Minnesota while a broader ineligible situation plays out.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied a petition from Minnesota officials for a impermanent restraining order, contempt acknowledging what she described arsenic “profound and moreover bosom breaking” consequences for communities successful nan state.

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“The Eighth Circuit has precocious reiterated that introduction aliases injunction barring nan national authorities from enforcing national rule imposes important harm connected nan government,” nan judge wrote.

Minnesota officials based on that nan cognition violates nan Tenth Amendment by unlawfully pressing nan authorities to alteration aliases wantonness alleged sanctuary policies and cooperate much afloat pinch national migration authorities. Menendez said those arguments, astatine slightest astatine this state, were not beardown capable to warrant blocking nan operation.

“The inferences to beryllium drawn regarding nan allegedly coercive intent of Operation Metro Surge are not arsenic one-sided arsenic Plaintiffs suggest,” she wrote, rejecting nan state’s declare that nan cognition was being carried retired “in brazenly lawless ways” to unit changes successful authorities and section law.

The Minnesota Attorney General's agency did not instantly respond to NBC News' petition for comment.