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Minnesota is suing the Department of Homeland Security over immigration operations in the state, following the fatal shooting of a woman last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
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The lawsuit, which names Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, alleged that the Trump administration’s recent surge of immigration agents to Minnesota is “unprecedented” and “reflects an alarming escalation of the Trump Administration’s retaliatory actions towards the state.”
The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul joined the lawsuit that aims to block federal immigration enforcement operations in the state.
“[President] Donald Trump should know, as long as federal agents are in our city acting unconstitutionally against our neighbors, we will continue to push back with everything we got,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, said at a press conference Monday.
“We don’t retreat in Minneapolis. We don’t back down in Minnesota. We stand up against bullies,” Frey said.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says immigration operations in Minnesota must “stop.”
The state is asking the court to “end the surge of thousands of DHS agents into Minnesota,” Ellison said during a press conference Monday to announce the lawsuit.
“We ask the courts to end the DHS unlawful behavior in our state, the intimidation, the threats, the violence,” Ellison continued.
“We ask the courts to end the tactics on our places of worship, our schools, our courts, our marketplaces, our hospitals, and even funeral homes. The deployment of thousands of armed mass DHS agents to Minnesota has done our state serious harm. This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and it must stop,” he said.
I will be holding a press conference at 3:30p CT today with @MayorFrey and Mayor Her to discuss our lawsuit to halt ICE’s surge into Minnesota.
Watch live: https://t.co/QO06IzBQdC
— Attorney General Keith Ellison (@AGEllison) January 12, 2026
In response, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claims Ellison has “made it abundantly clear today he is prioritizing politics over public safety.”
“Sanctuary politicians like Ellison are the EXACT reason that DHS surged to Minnesota in the first place,” McLaughlin added. “If he, [Gov.] Tim Walz, or Jacob Frey had just done their sworn duty to protect the people of Minnesota they are supposed to serve to root out fraud and get criminals off the street—if they had worked with us to do it—we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place.”
Minneapolis is a sanctuary city, meaning the city does not cooperate with federal immigration officials.
“President Trump’s job is to protect the American people and enforce the law—no matter who your mayor, governor, or state attorney general is,” McLaughlin said.
Noem announced Sunday that the Trump administration was sending hundreds more federal officers to Minneapolis to join the roughly 2,000 agents who were already sent to the state earlier this month.
The new arrivals will “allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely,” Noem said on Fox News Sunday, adding that immigration enforcement operations will “continue” in the city despite protests and opposition from elected Democrat leaders.
Anti-ICE protests have continued in Minneapolis since Wednesday, when an agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, 37, who appeared to obstruct immigration enforcement operations there.
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This article was originally published at The Daily Signal. Photo Credit: Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Flickr.
