Key Highlights
- Legal analysts say the unrest, while volatile, does not inhibit the federal government’s constitutional authority to enforce immigration law.
- That threshold would only be crossed if state officials themselves moved to block or materially obstruct federal agents, raising Supremacy Clause concerns. Ilya Somin, a George Mason University law professor, told Fox News Digital that hindering federal agents' work, even aggressively, does not rise to that level.
- "There is no general principle of law which says that anything that makes the work of federal agents more difficult in any way somehow violates the Constitution," Somin said.
- FEDS SHIFT TO TARGETED IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IN MINNEAPOLIS UNDER HOMAN Protesters clash with law enforcement after a federal agent shot and killed a man Jan.
- 24, the second federal-involved shooting in the city during the month, deepening tensions over enforcement operations in Minneapolis.
