Posted on 01/16/2026 11:30:53 PM PST by Morgana
A federal judge on Friday issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and blocked ICE from arresting so-called peaceful protestors.
US District Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden appointee, also blocked ICE agents from deploying non-lethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against protestors.
Six individuals sued The DHS, DHS Chief Kristi Noem and other federal agencies to restrict ICE’s tactics.
Approximately 3,000 federal agents have descended on Minnesota to arrest criminal illegal aliens.
Judge Menendez also ruled that protestors may ‘safely’ follow ICE vehicles.
The judge ruled:
Covered Federal Agents are hereby enjoined from:
a. Retaliating against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge.
b. Arresting or detaining persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct and absent a showing of probable cause or reasonable suspicion that the person has committed a crime or is obstructing or interfering with the activities of Covered Federal Officers.
c. Using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct.
d. Stopping or detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles where there is no reasonable articulable suspicion that they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with Covered Federal Agents, or otherwise violating 18 U.S.C. § 111. The act of safely following Covered Federal Agents at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop.
Separately, the state of Minnesota sued the Department of Homeland Security to stop federal agents from conducting lawful immigration raids.
Judge Menendez did not immediately issue a TRO on that case. She gave both sides more time to submit arguments.
Arrest the judge under the premise of interfering with a federal police operation.
Repeat as needed.
Black-robed tyrants must learn that there are limits to their authority, and so many of them are going far beyond their legitimate power that a harsh slap-down is way overdue.
The left are like a fat rat trapped by a hungry mean cat looking for a way out.
America’s new WEAPONIZED judiciary is just another LGBTQ+ “peaceful but dangerous” organization that needs to be shut down.
And Trump’s approval numbers are in the toilet.
Pull ‘em out. Let Minneapolis go to hell. Mogadishu they wayn, Mogadishu is what they should get.
She is a federal judge. Don’t we have the right to peacefully protest her decisions? If so, Judge Kate Menendez should be confronted on her way to and from work. Peacefully, of course. I guess it’s okay to yell and get in her face?
And Trump’s approval numbers are in the toilet.
Pull ‘em out. Let Minneapolis go to hell. Mogadishu they wayn, Mogadishu is what they should get.
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Cut off the federal funding for daycares other means they’re defrauding taxpayers. Also, cut off the welfare for those here illegally.
Those participating in welfare fraud should never be allowed any forms of welfare again. The only welfare allowed to these cheating invaders should be a one way ticket back to where they came from.
Queen for a day.
That’s a reasonable POV but it would be nice to hear it from SCOTUS.
I have only two words….🐂💩
Definition (in legal terms) of "harbor", please. A whole lot of landlords might be facing jail time.
Meaningless.
If not peaceful or unobstructive, free fire.
To back down now would be cowardice. We must win this battle and not worry about stupid CNN polls. This is war!
since you asked:
https://dictionary.justia.com/harbor
harbor
Definitions of “harbor”
A safe and comfortable place
The act of secretly providing shelter to a person escaping justice
The act of keeping an animal in one’s care
How to use “harbor” in a sentence
The farm served as a harbor for the missing child until the authorities arrived.
Contrary to popular belief, it is illegal to harbor someone who is avoiding arrest.
She was known to harbor stray cats, providing them food and shelter.
Here, a judge says these types of tools cannot be used against people who are peaceful and unobstructive, but they really mean they don't want those weapons used at all. Of course, if people are being peaceful and not obstructive, they would not be subjected to pepper spray or another other deterrent.
And just what tools does a federal judge or even the judicial branch in general have to enforce such an injunction?
Who is doing the "so-calling"?
None in Indiana?
I betcha that the ‘protesters’ would get really tired of chasing ICE all over town, if all the ICE would just jump in their cars and leave after the sign wavers have gotten situated.
Ten minutes later...ICE has been seen here!
Repeat as necessary.
There is no Constitutional right to undifferentiated “protest”.
There is a right to assemble peaceably. Literally no anti-ICE “protests” meet this definition.
There is a right to petition the government for redress of grievances. Anti-ICE protests are not generating any petitions.
Other than these two delineated rights, protesting as it developed in the late 1950s was meant to get the protesters arrested,and through their arrests, change public opinion about particular issues.
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