> This is the first time we are aware that any federal agent in the Twin Cities campaign has connected the federal immigration campaign with Minnesota’s political alignment as a “blue” Democratic Party-leaning state.
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> After the Civil War, the 14th Amendment said the “whole number of persons in each state” should be counted. The agent’s statement that “the more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue” could be a reference to deportations changing the “apportionment” of seats in Congress every decade.
hn_acker•1h ago
> Federal Agent in Coon Rapids: 'The more people that you lose in Minnesota, you then lose a voting right to stay blue.'