The Trump administration‘s Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has led to thousands of illegal immigrants being arrested, but various lawsuits over those detentions have flooded the federal district court in the state.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota handles cases, including habeas corpus cases challenging law enforcement’s reasons for their detention, filed by illegal immigrants swept up in the federal immigration operations in the North Star State. Those challenges have been largely successful despite the federal law that Congress passed to keep district courts out of the removal process.