ST. PAUL, Minn. — Bills are active in the Minnesota Legislature to forbid local governments from contracting with federal agencies to provide local jails as holding cells for immigration detainees. The House sponsor, Samantha Sencer-Mura, D-Minneapolis. said that such contracts contributed to the trauma of President Trump’s three-month military occupation of Minnesota beginning in December. Said Sencer-Mura: “Part of the chaos, confusion and cruelty that ICE deployed during Metro Surge was the use of county jails,” A companion bill has been introduced in the Senate. Republican opposition is expected.
