Two noteworthy rulings affecting the immigration crackdown in Minnesota issued Saturday offered sharp words for the Trump administration and sympathy for the state amid the two-month-old deportation operation.
Operation Metro Surge “will likely continue to have profound and even heartbreaking consequences,” Minnesota-based U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez wrote when denying a request to pause the federal operation.
In ordering the release of 5-year-old Columbia Heights preschooler Liam Ramos and his father, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Fred Biery was more forceful, writing: “For some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds, and are bereft of human decency.”
Both judges were appointed by Democrats.
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