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A US judge delivered a blow Saturday to Minnesota\u2019s bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state.<\/p>\n

Federal authorities under US President Donald Trump have swept through Minnesota communities seeking undocumented migrants, detaining thousands and shooting dead two US citizens in the process, sparking outrage.<\/p>\n

Ruling on Minnesota\u2019s bid to obtain a temporary restraining order, federal judge Katherine Menendez wrote in a ruling \u201cultimately, the Court finds that the balance of harms does not decisively favor an injunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minnesota argues that the month-long federal operation violated its sovereignty as a state.<\/p>\n

Menendez said she was not making a final judgment on the state\u2019s overall case in her decision not to issue a temporary restraining order, something that would follow arguments in court.<\/p>\n

She also made no determination on whether the bitterly divisive immigration crackdown in the state had broken the law.<\/p>\n

The ruling follows a massive protest by tens of thousands of Minnesotans on Friday against the operation, Metro Surge, which is also opposed by the state\u2019s Democratic establishment.<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u2018Disappointed\u2019 \u2013<\/h2>\n

The mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota\u2019s largest city and the leading target of federal sweeps, said \u201cof course, we\u2019re\u00a0disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0change what people here have lived through \u2014 fear, disruption, and harm caused by a federal operation that never belonged in Minneapolis in the first place,\u201d Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by masked, heavily armed agents sparked a nationwide outcry after which Trump withdrew combative Customs and Border Protection commander Gregory Bovino and replaced him with his border point man Tom Homan who pledged to draw down the operation, with conditions.<\/p>\n

Ahead of Saturday\u2019s ruling, Hamline University politics and legal studies professor David Schultz said that Minnesota was arguing that the national government through the ICE enforcement and other actions was \u201ctrying to force or coerce the state into doing certain things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAttorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to the state of Minnesota after Alex Pretti was killed, and said, \u2018Well, if you want the ICE operations to stop, we want you to do this, this and this.\u2019 It kind of read like a threat,\u201d Schultz said.<\/p>\n

Bondi described the judge\u2019s ruling as a \u201chuge\u201d legal win for the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither sanctuary policies nor meritless litigation will stop the Trump Administration from enforcing federal law in Minnesota,\u201d she wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n

AFP<\/p>\n

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