Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand.

"ICE presence has disrupted all aspects of life in Minnesota, and led tragically to the death of Renee Good. It’s the outcome of government overreach that favors force over legitimacy."


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The occupation of Minnesota by ICE cannot stand.

In December, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced what the administration labeled “Operation Metro Surge,” describing it as an effort to expose corruption tied to Minnesota’s documented welfare fraud scandal. “We will arrest the criminal illegal aliens hurting Americans,” she said, promising accountability for anyone who “aided and abetted” that criminality.

That is not what Minnesotans are currently experiencing. What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government.

Fraud investigation and immigration enforcement in Minnesota have become a pretext for a sweeping federal show of force that bears little relationship to the problem it claims to address. It is indiscriminate. Noncitizen immigrants without legal status make up roughly 1.5% of Minnesota’s population — less than half the national average. Nothing about that figure justifies the scale, posture or tactics now widely deployed.

Immigration enforcement in the U.S. is not going away, nor should it. But enforcement carried out without restraint, transparency or proportionality does not strengthen the rule of law. It corrodes it.

https://www.startribune.com/editorial-minnesota-is-under-siege-and-it-cannot-stand/601564040

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1. INS did enforcement before ICE

Get rid of ICE