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But the Biden-appointed judge said state officials’ arguments that the state was being punished or unfairly treated by the federal government were insufficient to justify blocking the surge altogether. And in a 30-page opinion, the judge said she was “particularly reluctant to take a side in the debate about the purpose behind Operation Metro Surge.”

The surge has involved about 3,000 federal officers, a size roughly triple that of the local police forces in Minneapolis and St. Paul. However, Menendez said it was difficult to assess how large or onerous a federal law enforcement presence could be before it amounted to an unconstitutional intrusion on state authority.

“There is no clear way for the Court to determine at what point Defendants’ alleged unlawful actions…becomes (sic) so problematic that they amount to unconstitutional coercion and an infringement on Minnesota’s state sovereignty,” she wrote, later adding that there is “no precedent for a court to micromanage such decisions.”

Menendez said her decision was strongly influenced by a federal appeals court’s ruling last week that blocked an order she issued reining in the tactics Homeland Security officials could use against peaceful protesters opposing the federal operation. She noted that the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted her order in that separate lawsuit even though it was much more limited than the sweeping relief the state and cities sought.

“If that injunction went too far, then the one at issue here—halting the entire operation—certainly would,” the judge said in her Saturday ruling.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

It's why I'm going to just laugh at you all year long while you bring up any polling numbers or this or that. Which will be even funnier if in the meantime the economy improves and you're forced to stop talking about polling numbers alltogether.

Not only is the entire system of voting going to look a LOT different going forward, but mark my words we will also have an emergency Census done before the 2028 election so many of the new rules are applied before what could amount to the most important election in the history of America.

Be Evil. Be a dick.

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Originally posted by THG:
Jack, you keep saying I have no idea what is about to happen, but you never say what that is. Why, because you're full of shit.

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. . . the census rules are changed to not include illegals (which will result in net losses upward of another -30 Democrat +30 Republican seats in June)

Be Evil. Be a dick.

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Gavel-wielding partisans are losing the power to grant special privileges to noncitizens. The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals last week demolished the fanciful theories that lower-court magistrates have come up with to treat people who broke into the country better than Americans.

Within Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and anywhere else courts are persuaded, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will no longer have to sit back and watch as the villains they captured are set free in a matter of hours after left-wing groups that hate law, order and borders post bail.

Attorney General Pam Bondi called the first-of-its-kind decision “a significant blow against activist judges who have been undermining our efforts to make America safe again at every turn.”

The three-judge panel reached this conclusion by reasoning that when the federal act says, “Any alien subject to the procedures under this clause shall be detained pending a final determination … until removed,” it means illegal aliens shall be detained until they are removed.

Democratic-appointed district court judges take creative liberty in interpreting the relevant provisions to stand congressional intent on its head. Their goal is to bail out as many illegal aliens as they can, while groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union lodge appeals at each stage to drag out proceedings and ensure justice is never accomplished.

Writing for the 5th Circuit panel, Judge Edith H. Jones points out that the federal objective is to handle immigration cases differently. “The text says what it says, regardless of the decisions of prior Administrations,” she concluded. “Years of consistent practice cannot vindicate an interpretation that is inconsistent with a statute’s plain text.”

Granting full “due process” rights to foreign intruders can have deadly consequences for the rest of society. California’s sanctuary policies, for instance, will eventually let loose 33,179 criminals who don’t belong in this nation, including 399 murderers, 3,171 burglars and 1,293 sexual predators.

Liberals lie about the impact these freed crooks can have on the public good. Last week, a Boston jury found Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, guilty of using a stolen identity to vote in the 2024 election — and probably not for President Trump. Orovio-Hernandez sneaked into the country from Colombia and is not entitled to stay here, yet she also scammed $400,000 in Social Security, housing and food stamp benefits.

Foreigners aren’t the only ones cashing in. Immigration lawyers pull in big money as they file endless motions for an ever-expanding client base. Liberal billionaires are happy to reward anyone who thwarts deportations. In the past decade, the Board of Immigration Appeals caseload skyrocketed from 37,000 to more than 200,000.

Mr. Trump is done playing these games.

His One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes a mandatory $1,000 fee on each immigration case and shortens the deadline for filing complaints from 30 days to 10. Effective March 6, the administration’s default position will be to deny all challenges unless a majority of immigration board members vote to hear the case.

“And such dismissals will occur quickly — within 15 days of filing the appeal — allowing aliens to seek Federal court review expeditiously, rather than potentially waiting for years for a Board decision that in the vast majority of cases would affirm the underlying Immigration Judge decision,” the new Justice Department regulation explains.

These developments will go a long way toward restoring a “due process” that returns noncitizen offenders to their home countries as swiftly as possible.

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