Federal judge denies request to block ICE surge in Minnesota

BBC ^ | Jan 31, 2026

[11th_VA]

A federal judge on Saturday denied a state government request to block the Trump administration's deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In a ruling, District Court Judge Katherine Menendez said the immigration enforcement operation "has had, and will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences on the State of Minnesota". But, she said, state officials had not proved that the Trump administration's surge of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis was unlawful.

The ruling comes as thousands nationwide have taken to the streets to protest the fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal agents.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; deployment; dhs; ice; insurgency; judgewatch; minneapolis; minnesota; nationalguard

[11th_VA]

Winning

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Nice to see this, but regardless of how this particular judge ruled, the idea that a judge could tell the feds to stop enforcing immigration law was never going to survive appeal.

[Seruzawa]

85+% of Americans support deportation.
For legal immigrants it is higher IIRC.

Eff these traitors. They support human and child sex trafficking. These are the people who let elderly people die of covid alone. They sent armed cops to arrest people who went to the beach without a mask. They stand for the drug cartels. With friends like this we don’t need enemies.

[know.your.why]

...idea that a district judge...

Aren't these "judges" having a hard time getting past the Supreme Court?

[riverrunner]

“has had, and will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences on the State of Minnesota”

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Not the governments job to worry about this

[DPMD]

Note to judge: Just deny it and keep the heartbreaking BS to yourself. Just saying for some friends named Jocelyn, Lakin, Monica,. and others.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Not the governments job to worry about this Well, it certainly isn't the job of the judiciary to worry about that. Whether a law is "heartbreaking", is a policy question that is up to Congress and the President to decide.

[CharlesOConnell]

Black People's Ancestors Didn't Ask to Come Here. Catholic Bishops Have No 'Compassion' For Them. There's No Money in It.

What was Alex Pretti kicking at when he was caught on camera rioting 6 days before he got himself killed?

Alex Pretti was kicking at my little Black girl's right to work, unprotected by "compassionate" Catholic Bishops on the take.

My daughter was crippled with club feet, but rode her little bike 6.5 miles to Taco Bell in Lockeford. She had to ride on Hwy 88 where giant trucks kicked up gravel in her face.

When she got there, she was supposed to get 20 hrs per week, but only got 17-1/2, while the Latina manager's undocumented brother got 80 hours per week on 3 social security cards.

My daughter's grandmother, born in 1899, was a child of former slaves, who didn't ask to be enslaved here; as a single mother in the Depression she built a business of 4 Log Cabin restaurants in Stockton and Lodi.

Lodi loses a landmark–1930s Lodi building that has housed the Log Cabin…demolished Thursday (July 13, 2000)

Texas AG Says Catholic Charity in Bishop Seitz’s Diocese Operates `Stash Houses` Concealing Illegal Aliens

Our Black family members haven't been getting any "compassion" from Catholic Bishops who got $100s millions from Biden to bring in endless legions of undocumented migrants like the Taco Bell manager's brother to lower the wages of people who are descended from the founders and builders of our country.

Alex Pretti was kicking at the people who try to protect my daughter's right to live and work.

Don't like La Migra? Change the law.

Or you could be like my friend Mario who is a landscaping foreman; he barely speaks any English but went to all the trouble of becoming naturalized, the same as my grandparents.

We don't go kicking at officers protecting people's right to live and work, unprotected by "compassionate" Catholic Bishops.

We don't take unsafe weapons liable to go off "accidentally" in an unsafe situatuon we ourselves create.

We're here to live and work, not destroy a country millions of people still long to get into.

[11th_VA]

Wow - quite a story. May the favor of the Lord be upon your family

[philman_36]

But, she said, state officials had not proved that the Trump administration's surge of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis was unlawful.

Find out which lawyers brought this to court and NEVER hire them for anything as they were BRAINDEAD for thinking this case ever stood a chance.

[KitJ]

Oddly, Judge Menendez is a Biden judge and thoroughly steeped in communist lawfare ideology from Chicago to New York to Minnesota.

I’ll point this out since no one else has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_M._Menendez

All ideological and compromised judges rule against Trump. This time she didn’t. Why? Something up the sleeve. I don’t trust it.

There have been zero Biden judges that ruled for Trump until now. No Obama judges that I know of. No Xlinton judges.

Most Bush I/Bush II judges rule against Trump. Shoot, we’ve got 90+ year old Reagan judges still on the bench ruling against Trump.

Ginsburg was still ruling against Trump in her hospital bed, braindead and lateral, with staffers filing judgments that they thought she would agree with.

I’d like to think there are more than 3% of Federal judges who follow law and their oath to protect the Constitution. But I need to be convinced.

[Texan4Life]

Mark Levin dishing out inconvenient truths about illegal immigration and representation seats in Congress - Jan. 31, 2026. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9aD0NVn04Q

[USCG SimTech]

Last I checked, the federal legislature contains reps from MN in both the House and Senate. The federal laws passed are bonded to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution that those reps were responsible for in their passage. Minnesota has already spoken, state or local governments are 100% abject to the federal laws their reps have spoken for in DC.