Priscilla Alvarez

Thanks, Caroline.

In that lawsuit, the plaintiffs were arguing that these federal immigration enforcement tactics by the Trump administration have been violating the constitutional rights of Minnesotans.

The argument is that these are indiscriminate and unconstitutional stops and arrests.

Of course, the use of force that we've seen, they argue

also violates constitutional rights, including the killings of Renee Goode and Alex Preddy.

They were arguing, furthermore, that the judge should rule essentially immediately.

They were asking for an immediate pause as the litigation proceeds on Operation Metro Surge.

But in the hearing today, it didn't seem clear that the judge was actually willing to act as quickly as the plaintiffs want her to.

And she also expressed some wariness that this was her decision to make.

She expressed some

some trepidation over wading into what she described as a policy dispute over immigration enforcement between a state and the federal government.

Of course, we're also dealing with a pretty rapidly shifting political situation right now in the sense that we've been

hearing a pretty markedly different tune from Donald Trump himself.

Then we heard over the weekend from key figures in his administration in the aftermath of the Alex pretty killing.

Trump is sending Tom Homan.

The borders are here to Minnesota, apparently to replace border patrol chief, uh, Greg Bovino, you know, just context for our viewers, the types of tactics that we've been seeing, uh, these types of tactics that, that critics describe as reckless and dangerous and which my reporting and, and many other people's reporting shows, uh,

have, you know, resulted in.

And, you know, I should say, for example, former DHS, high-level DHS officials who are career people, not political appointees, have told me that these operations in urban environments in American cities put not only the people of these cities in dangerous positions, but also the DHS agents involved.

Those tactics

could be changing in the coming days here in Minnesota if, in fact, the Trump administration, who, you know, Trump also having had this call with Governor Walz, is signaling the possibility of a de-escalation or even potentially a withdrawal of federal agents from the city.