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(CNN) — The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the Trump administration, arguing the unprecedented federal immigration operation in the state is “a federal invasion,” and seeking a court order halting the crackdown, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

“This has to stop; it just has to stop,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a Monday news conference announcing the lawsuit.

It was filed shortly after Illinois and the city of Chicago also sued the Trump administration, alleging the Department of Homeland Security has terrorized residents in “organized bombardment.”

The suit argues the federal government is violating the Tenth Amendment by unlawfully commandeering state resources, interfering with Minnesota’s authority to govern, and disregarding state law and city ordinances.

CNN has reached out to DHS for comment on Minnesota’s lawsuit.

The federal government initially launched Operation Metro Surge, an immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, in December to target undocumented Somali immigrants but it has also led to the arrests of immigrants from other nations.

Around 1,000 additional US Customs and Border Protection agents are expected to deploy to Minneapolis, according to two federal law enforcement sources. The agents started deploying Friday and continued over the weekend, one of the sources said, coming on top of a deployment of about 2,000 federal agents to the area that CNN reported early last week.

“As long as federal agents are in our city acting unconstitutionally against our neighbors, we will continue to push back with everything we got,” Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at the news conference.

The lawsuit also claims Operation Metro Surge is not a legitimate law enforcement action, but rather a retaliation effort against Democratic-led Minnesota, citing the president’s disparaging comments toward local officials.

“President Trump expressed the root of his displeasure in plain terms during a recorded interview: he essentially claimed that Minnesota is ‘corrupt’ and ‘crooked’ because its officials accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner,” the lawsuit says, citing a January 9 interview by the president.

Officials in the North Star State have echoed each other’s calls for weeks for immigration officials to cooperate with local law enforcement and leave – which has prompted biting rhetoric in return from federal officials.

Tensions between federal law enforce

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En enero de 2025 el director ejecutivo de Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, dijo que estaba ansioso por contar con un aliado en la Casa Blanca para enfrentar regulaciones extranjeras que, según él, estaban “empujando” a las empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses a “censurar más” contenido.

Eso ocurrió pocos días antes de la investidura de Donald Trump, y el presidente ha estado dispuesto a asumir ese papel. Esto ha derivado en un pulso cada vez mayor entre Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea que podría pesar cada vez más sobre su relación.

El presidente de EE.UU. ha presionado a la Unión Europea y a otros gobiernos extranjeros para que reduzcan la regulación de las empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses, al tiempo que promueve menos controles dentro del país. Su Gobierno intensificó esos esfuerzos el mes pasado al amenazar con penalizar a empresas tecnológicas europeas y buscar bloquear la entrada a Estados Unidos de destacados investigadores en seguridad tecnológica y de un regulador.

Las tensiones crecientes se basan en un desacuerdo fundamental sobre cómo regular a las empresas tecnológicas. Los reguladores europeos, líderes globales en legislación sobre tecnología, consideran que ciertos controles fomentan la seguridad en línea, la libertad de expresión y la competencia en la industria. Estados Unidos ha adoptado en gran medida un enfoque de no intervención.

Los republicanos, que ahora controlan el Gobierno de EE.UU., han calificado en los últimos años los esfuerzos de moderación de contenidos como “censura”. Y las empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses —molestas por tener que cumplir con nuevos requisitos de la UE o enfrentar multas— podrían estar aprovechando ahora una oportunidad para contraatacar.

Se trata de un conflicto que podría colocar a Silicon Valley en el centro de negociaciones comerciales más amplias entre EE.UU. y la UE este año, especialmente porque el Gobierno de Trump considera que el avance sin trabas en inteligencia artificial es crucial para la economía y la seguridad nacional.

“Hay una especie de colisión… entre las quejas del Gobierno de Trump sobre la censura y el deseo de las grandes empresas tecnológicas de, en algunos casos, desmantelar por completo la legislación digital de la UE”, dijo Lindsay Gorman, directora ejecutiva del programa de tecnología del centro de análisis German Marshall Fund. “Podríamos encaminarnos a un choque mayor, porque los funcionarios de la UE han dicho que no se van a dejar arrollar”.

Esto es lo que sabemos.

La disputa entre Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea por la regulación tecnológica se remonta al primer Gobierno de Trump. Funcionarios estadounidenses criticaron con dureza el Reglamento General de Protección de Datos (GDPR) de la UE tras su entrada en vigor en 2018. Las empresas tecnológicas estadounidenses también habían presionado en contra de esa ley.

Las acciones antimonopolio de la UE contra compañías tecnológicas estadounidenses también dieron lugar a denuncias de discriminación, que los funcionarios europeos negaron.

En 2023 y 2024 entraron en vigor, respectivamente, la Ley de Servicios Digitales (DSA, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Ley de Mercados Digitales (DMA). Estas normas impusieron amplias reglas nuevas sobre la moderación en redes sociales, la publicidad dirigida y la interoperabilidad entre grandes plataformas, además de costosas multas para los gigantes tecnológicos que las incumplan.

Expertos señalan que, en cierto modo, estas leyes buscaban facilitar la vida a las empresas tecnológicas, al evitar que tuvieran que cumplir normas distintas en cada uno de los 27 Estados miembros de la UE. (Trump ha alentado un enfoque similar en Est

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A federal grand jury indicted an Onarga, Illinois man on charges of interstate threats to injure after he allegedly posted a comment on social media to harm people during a Hannukah celebration in Thousand Oaks.

In December of 2025, a social media post was made to advertise the City of Thousand Oaks' Hannukah event and a statement made in the comment section threatened to harm attendees stated a press release from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Investigators identified the alleged poster as a 61-year-old man living in Onarga, Illinois shared the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Out of an abundance of caution, additional law enforcement were stationed at the community event noted the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

According to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, local detectives worked alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Springfield Field Office and as as result of their joint investigation, the 61-year-old was indicted on a federal charge of interstate communications with a threat to injure on Jan. 6, 2026.

On Jan. 8, the 61-year-old was arrested in Illinois and remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending court proceedings detailed the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

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