Key insights
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Minnesota attorney general says federal deployment reduced safety: Keith Ellison said the surge of ICE officers and the deployment of thousands of armed, masked DHS agents into Minnesota made the state less safe and caused serious harm.
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Local officials dispute federal account of the Minneapolis shooting: US authorities accused Renee Good of driving her car toward the officer, and local officials cited video footage showing her vehicle turning away from the agent.
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Homeland Security secretary frames deployments as anti-fraud and anti-crime action: Kristi Noem wrote that the administration would root out fraud, arrest criminal illegal aliens, and hold accountable those who aid and abet criminality.
Takeaways
Minnesota and Illinois are asking courts to declare the federal immigration-enforcement surge into Minnesota unconstitutional while disputes continue over the circumstances of Renee Good’s killing in Minneapolis.
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