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Yesterday, in closely related news, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Trump Administration Asks Judge to Reject Minnesota’s Call to Block ICE Surge.” The story included a whirlwind of astonishing facts. First, the Minneapolis ICE operation, called “Operation Metro Surge,” now involves three thousand agents, who have reportedly made a staggering three thousand arrests just in the last six weeks, amounting to an unimaginable ten thousand arrests in Minneapolis since the operation started.

Second, the State of Minnesota has filed a novel lawsuit asking a federal judge to essentially evict ICE from the state. The lawsuit argues that the entire operation violates Minnesota’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment, and that DHS’s “actions appear designed to provoke community outrage, sow fear and inflict emotional distress, and they are interfering with the ability of state and local officials to protect and care for their residents.”




She is AWFL

Judge Kate Menendez (Biden appointee) should have thrown the lawsuit out on supremacy grounds, but has so far made no rulings and has invited the DOJ to file a brief. She’s also the same judge who recently ruled that ICE can’t even question protestors who trail ICE agents in their cars.

Third, and possibly the most interesting, the Times reported that “on Friday, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into whether Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis had conspired to impede federal agents.” The BBC reported that the investigation relates to 18 U.S.C. § 372, a rarely used Civil War–era law making it a crime for “two or more persons” to conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any federal officer from discharging their official duties.

That kind of investigation allows DOJ to get hold of all Walz and Frey’s communications. It could be spicy.

Where all of this is going is unclear. But it feels like it is escalating toward some sort of climax. ...

The Minneapolis protests have become a microcosm of 2020’s “Summer of Love” BLM protests, which coincidentally started in the same city. It’s like the summer of 2020 never actually ended there.

Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists. These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing. They are troublemakers who should be thrown in jail, or thrown out of the Country. The first to go should be Walz, and Fake Sleazebag, Ilhan Omar, who is supposedly worth over $30 Million Dollars, even though she’s never had anything but a Government job. Investigate these Corrupt Politicians, and do it now!