Trump Push for Voter Data Ratchets up Election Interference Concerns

'Sanctuary' tag masks actual level of ICE cooperation in Minnesota

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration says it was forced to send 3,000 federal agents to conduct wholesale apprehensions of immigrants in Minnesota because the state is a “sanctuary” that does not follow federal law and impedes the work of immigration officials. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a letter to Gov. Tim Walz on Saturday – the day Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti – cited as a condition for the removal of federal forces…

Pam Bondi's Minneapolis shakedown

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Trump push for voter data ratchets up election interference concerns

Party leaders and election experts alike were alarmed this week after Attorney General Pam Bondi asked for access to Minnesota’s voter rolls as a condition for ending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in the state.

Pam Bondi Presses Minnesota for Voter Data

“For months, President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to force Minnesota’s Democratic leaders to turn over detailed information about the state’s voters, including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers,” the Washington Post reports. “State officials have said no. Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi is repeating those demands in a letter that also references the federal government’s aggressive deployment of immig…

Why Minnesota's secretary of state says he will not hand over voter data to the Trump administration

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz this weekend pressing the state to turn over its voter data, on the same day of a second fatal shooting by ICE. Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has firmly rejected the request, saying the state will not hand over confidential voter information.