Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – According to AFP, on January 12th local time, the Minnesota state government filed a lawsuit against the federal government, accusing it of violating the Constitution in recent immigration enforcement actions in the state and leading to the shooting death of a female protester in Minneapolis by federal law enforcement officers.
According to reports, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, accused the Department of Homeland Security of recently deploying a large number of immigration enforcement personnel to the Democratic-led northern state. He claimed these personnel were "inadequately trained, aggressive, and armed, engaging in illegal activities," failing to enhance state security and instead causing panic in the community.
Ellison emphasized that the federal government's targeting of Minnesota due to its diversity, democratic system, and political differences with the federal government "violates the Constitution and federal law," and is essentially "an overreach of federal authority."
On January 7th, a shooting occurred in Minneapolis. Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old local resident, was shot and killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during an immigration policy protest. This act of police brutality sparked ongoing protests in the city.
Mayor Jacob Frey pointed out that the federal government's choice to enforce the law so forcefully in the state was related to the state's Democratic-led government.
"If the federal government's goal is simply to arrest undocumented immigrants, Minneapolis and St. Paul are not the preferred locations," Frey said. He added that Florida, Texas, and Utah have even larger numbers of undocumented immigrants, but these states are all Republican-controlled.
Illinois, also a Democratic-led state facing similar enforcement pressure, filed a lawsuit against the federal government on the 12th.
