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ICE's budget has skyrocketed during President Trump's second term, and the administration is taking the unprecedented step of aggregating Americans' personal data and making it more accessible to the agency.
NPR dug through court records and interviewed people to better understand the extensive surveillance apparatus DHS has been building.
Immigration lawyers said their clients had been subjected to facial recognition technology.
Protesters and journalists described agents photographing them and calling them by name or knowing their home addresses.
Lawyers worry such tactics violate the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment.
Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington.
Attorneys representing Minnesota and the Twin Cities had argued in court that the federal actions were violating constitutional protections and causing, quote, tremendous damage, and had asked for a temporary restraining order.
District Judge Kate Menendez, a President Biden appointee, denied that request after reviewing it for quite some time.
Her ruling really focused on the state's argument and whether it was likely to succeed in court.
And ultimately, she said she didn't think it would.
Attorneys representing Minnesota and the Twin Cities argued in court that the federal actions on the ground were causing, quote, tremendous damage and asked the court to immediately halt the immigration surge with a temporary restraining order.
District Judge Kate Menendez, a President Biden appointee, denied that request while acknowledging that the surge, quote, has had and will likely continue to have profound and even heartbreaking consequences for the state of Minnesota.
But she said that an injunction halting the operation would go too far and harm the federal government's efforts to enforce immigration laws.
The operation has sent thousands of immigration agents to the city, sparking weeks of protests and the killing of two U.S.