Minnesota Democrats are trying to establish their state as an open borders sanctuary where the federal government cannot enforce federal law and deport some of the most despicable criminals who are illegally in the country, all because a woman was shot when she tried to run over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
Minnesota, joined by Illinois, filed a lawsuit labeling immigration enforcement as “assault” and seeking to restrict the federal government’s ability to enforce federal immigration law in their states. This is because ICE has carried out large deportation operations in Minneapolis, where left-wing politicians have whipped up activist mobs to interfere in ICE operations. One such activist, Renee Good, got herself shot after blocking ICE vehicles, refusing to adhere to lawful demands to step out of her vehicle, and striking an ICE officer with her car.
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This means that Minnesota is going to court (along with Illinois) to argue that the federal government should be unable to enforce immigration law. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says the federal operations are too forceful, amounting to a “federal invasion.” That is, of course, only because Minnesota is actively defying federal law by serving as a sanctuary state, protecting illegal immigrants from deportation, and because Ellison and his Democratic colleagues are encouraging their activist base to interfere, escalating tensions with ICE and resulting in the federal government having to impose crowd control measures.
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Worse still, Ellison and his Minnesota Democratic colleagues are doing this on behalf of despicable criminals. The Department of Homeland Security highlighted some of the illegal immigrants detained in its Minneapolis operations, with crimes that include the following: sexual assault on a child, domestic violence, and assault with a dangerous weapon. One illegal immigrant from Somalia is a registered sex offender who has been convicted of 17 crimes. Ellison wants to prevent the federal government from deporting people like that.
If Minnesota were cooperating with deportation efforts and handing over these violent criminals once they were arrested by local police, there would be no need for ICE officers to be in the streets of Minneapolis. But Minnesota Democrats think they are above federal law, so much so that they are asking a court to prevent the federal government from enforcing federal law in their state, all on behalf of sex offenders and drug traffickers who are in the country illegally.