ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 22 state attorneys general sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday. They called the government’s conduct in Minnesota unlawful and dangerous and rebuked demands made of that state.
Bondi’s Department of Justice told Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to hand over all records from its voter rolls and Medicaid and food stamp programs. That was on January 24, the same day federal agents shot and killed a second civilian in Minneapolis in two weeks.
Bondi defended the federal intervention—Operation Metro Surge—as a necessary check to illegal immigration and danger to federal agents. She cited a 1,300% increase in violence against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and claimed that an “anti-ICE mob” stormed a Minneapolis church to scream at worshippers. She blamed the state for any hostility and also demanded a repeal of sanctuary policies In Minnesota…