MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — State officials in Minnesota and Illinois filed two separate lawsuits against the federal government in federal court Monday, claiming that the deployment of thousands of immigration agents to both states’ metro areas violated the U.S. Constitution and states rights.
The lawsuits, filed separately in the two states, follow what Minnesota calls in its suit an “unprecedented deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents” in the Minneapolis area last week, and a monthslong surge in the Chicago area that Illinois describes as an “organized bombardment” designed to coerce the state into abandoning its immigrant-friendly policies.
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