House GOP Leaders react to Ellison lawsuit

ST. PAUL – House Speaker Lisa Demuth and GOP Floor Leader Harry Niska released the following statement after news broke that Attorney General Keith Ellison will sue the federal government to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from enforcing federal immigration laws:

“Instead of working with the federal government to target and arrest criminal illegal immigrants, they are wasting state resources on a lawsuit that seeks to override the federal government’s authority to enforce immigration law. Minnesotans deserve leaders that allow the removal of violent criminals – not ones that demand they remain in our communities.”