At this point, Minneapolis exists as little more than a cautionary tale to the rest of America, and the lesson is being learned. From the New York Post,
Grinning anti-ICE agitator arrested after allegedly punching Florida trooper as DeSantis warns: ‘This is not Minneapolis.’
Just so. Unfortunately, the lesson is not being learned, back in Minneapolis. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press (PP),
State disputes ICE claim: ‘1,360 criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota’s custody’
I take the meaning of the claim in quotes to be the obvious one: that more than 1,300 aliens are being held in police custody within Minnesota.
Here, the PP and the state refute the strawman claim that the political entity State of Minnesota doesn’t have 1,300. The PP reports,
Of about 8,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prisons, 207 are non-U.S. citizens, according to the DOC statement. The state’s prisons notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement when someone with a detention hold is being released from custody to coordinate a pick-up from immigration officials.
The PP notes later on,
Last year, 84 people with ICE detainers were released from prison and DOC staff notified ICE in advance and coordinated with ICE officials to facilitate the custody transfer when requested.
What? So Walz is a Vichy collaborator?
Watch as the Pioneer Press crafts a lie,
The Trump administration has repeatedly said the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota is the result of “sanctuary politicians who release criminal illegal aliens directly from jails onto the streets to terrorize more innocent Americans,” but Minnesota officials say the state’s prisons work directly with ICE.
Trumps says “jails” which are operated by counties, but PP twists that into “prisons” which are operated at the state level.
But, as everybody knows, including the Pioneer Press, the real action is at the county level. The PP quotes Tim Walz,
But Walz’s office said the Minnesota legislature “has not passed legislation making Minnesota a sanctuary state, and the governor has not signed any such legislation into law.”
But nineteen (19) paragraphs earlier, the PP writes,
State law says local law enforcement cannot hold people in custody solely based on civil immigration detainer requests from ICE, according to a legal opinion last year from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.
So which is it? The state’s attorney general, the chief law officer, appears to disagree with the governor.
The U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Congress have placed immigration enforcement in the hands of the national Executive Branch. Congress created Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Congress also created a network of Immigration Courts under the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Ellison and 80 of Minnesota’s 87 counties refuse to recognize federal law and the federal constitution. Instead, they refuse to release an illegal alien into federal custody unless ordered to by a federal district judge, part of the federal judiciary branch.
In doing so, they have invented, out of nothing, an entirely novel, state-level immigration policy, and have gotten a handful of local Democrat-appointed federal judges to go along.
When ICE comes looking for an illegal alien, they do so as agents of the U.S. Department of Justice, in carrying out orders issued by an Immigration Court, under the system put in place by Congress. When ICE shows up, it is the end of due process, not a new beginning under a different branch of government.
Ellison, the big counties, and the local Democrat federal judges have manufactured a new, unconstitutional scheme. In their world, the final stage of ICE activity kicks off a brand-new, out-of-custody de novo review of everything that occurred in Immigration Court.
Take it up with Congress.
