Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment

A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enforce federal law.

By: Andrea Katz, Washington University in St. Louis, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: January 26, 2026

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By Andrea Katz, Washington University in St. Louis

A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state of Minnesota sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state. The administration has sent some 3,000 immigration agents to Minnesota, and attorneys for the state have argued, in part, that it amounts to an unconstitutional occupation, on 10th Amendment grounds. Alfonso Serrano, a politics editor at The …

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