Minnesota via AG Ellison is suing storm trooper deployment to Minnesota, and activity subsequent to their arrival.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fY8yD1Ar7nQ
80p complaint copy online, posted without cause number, because it was posted prior to filing, https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Communications/2026/docs/00190_DHS_Complaint.pdf (CASE 0:26-cv-00190 Doc. 1 Filed 01/12/26)
Opening paragraphs:
1. In December 2025, the federal government initiated “Operation Metro Surge,” an unprecedented deployment of federal immigration enforcement agents from numerous agencies of Defendant U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to the State of Minnesota, including into the cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Operation Metro Surge has instilled fear among people living, working and visiting the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area (the “Twin Cities”). Thousands of armed and masked DHS agents have stormed the Twin Cities to conduct militarized raids and carry out dangerous, illegal, and unconstitutional stops and arrests in sensitive public places, including schools and hospitals—all under the guise of lawful immigration enforcement.
2. Defendants claim this unprecedented surge of immigration agents is necessary to fight fraud. In reality, the massive deployment of armed agents to Minnesota bears no connection to that stated objective and instead reflects an alarming escalation of the Trump Administration’s retaliatory actions towards the state.
3. Defendants claim to have deployed over 2,000 DHS agents to the Twin Cities—a number that greatly exceeds the number of sworn police officers that Minneapolis and Saint Paul have, combined. Operation Metro Surge is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities.
4. This operation is driven by nothing more than the Trump Administration’s desire to punish political opponents and score partisan points—at the direct expense of Plaintiffs’ residents. Defendants’ 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. After weeks of escalation, including a DHS agent shooting into an occupied vehicle on December 21, 2025, in Saint Paul, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) agent shot and killed a Minneapolis resident on January 7, 2026.
5. The Tenth Amendment gives the State of Minnesota and its subdivisions, including the Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, inviolable sovereign authority to protect the health and wellbeing of all those who reside, work, or visit within their border The people of Minnesota are entitled to basic safety and dignity in their communities. They have the right to move about their daily lives confident that their constitutional rights and civil liberties will remain intact and will not be infringed. They have the right to go to work, take their children to school, and move through public and private spaces free from fear of violence against themselves or their loved ones by their federal government. They are entitled to access city services and use city facilities without being harassed by federal agents in parking lots. They expect that law enforcement, whether federal, state, or local, will follow the law, avoid creating dangerous and chaotic circumstances, and conduct itself in a manner that distinguishes officers from masked criminals. Indeed, being free from unlawful seizures, excessive force and retaliation are not a list of aspirations Minnesotans deserve; these are rights enshrined within state and federal laws.
6. When the federal government itself violates legal rights and civic norms on such a broad scale and public panic is high, state and city governments bear the costs—both tangible and intangible. Defendants’ agents’ reckless tactics endanger the public safety, health, and welfare of all Minnesotans. Additionally, Defendants’ agents’ inflammatory and unlawful policing tactics provoke the protests the federal government seeks to suppress.
7. The unlawful tactics used by Defendants’ agents have left members of Plaintiffs’ communities afraid to shop, go to work, attend school, access basic government services, or otherwise live their lives. They have also resulted in school closures across the Twin Cities due to safety concerns.
8. The unlawful tactics used by Defendants’ agents also undermine public trust in state and local law enforcement because individuals confuse Defendants with local police. Deteriorating public trust in local law enforcement has serious consequences: it suppresses the reporting and prosecution of crime, especially for immigrant populations. Defendants’ agents’ tactics also sap state and local resources when local law enforcement officers are called away from their important work to respond to avoidable incidents Defendants’ agents cause.
9. Plaintiffs bring this suit asking the Court to enjoin further legal violations and unlawful escalations by Defendants and prevent further harms to Plaintiffs.
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Perhaps the best executive summary of the court action was the Mayor saying to Trump's malicious subordinates, "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." That summary statement omits much detail, but captures the gist.
Trump's mayhem is unlawful, unwanted, harmful, and ill-motivated. Stop it.
Let all good people wish for prompt success of the resort to the courts for relief from the insect horde - the plague of locusts - Trump spitefully unleashed upon Minnesota because and only because its vast majority of politicians and voters favor the Democratic Party over Trump's Republican Party and Trump wants the people of the state to suffer mayhem because of that.
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Para, 105 of the AG's Complaint references parallel litigation, Tincher v. Noem, filed in the same federal district court, seeking class action status and a jury trial, with ACLU participation. Major court papers for Tincher in pdf format are online: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72047643/tincher-v-noem/
Basically Tincher is a denial of civil rights case, with the Complaint's INTRODUCTION page summarizing:
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More could be written, but readers should prefer to study the two noted cases. For now, With the recency of the AG complaint, it likely is all in the file now, perhaps with supporting papers such as affidavits of service, etc.
Tincher is further along in the litigation process.
FURTHER: Ripe for likely interesting discovery, AG complaint para 50 notes:
Many states have higher rates of reported non-citizens relative to their populations, including Utah, Texas, and Florida. The administration has made no similar efforts to surge federal immigration agent deployments into cities in Utah, Texas, or Florida. Incredibly, the reported non-citizen population of Utah, Florida, and Texas (combined together) is nearly the size of the entire population of Minnesota
Politics at play, you think?