APPEALS COURT PAUSES RESTRICTIONS ON ICE TACTICS IN MINNESOTA This ignores the fact that Minnesota law deliberately prevents counties from honoring ICE detainer requests. The state prison system cooperates, but county jails are forbidden from detaining illegal immigrants based solely on ICE detainer requests. Counties must opt in to a deal with ICE to hand over criminal illegal immigrants, according to Attorney General Keith Ellison. That means that county jails in 80 of Minnesota’s 87 counties, including all of its largest counties, are not honoring ICE detainer requests, which Minnesota state Democrats are pretending is now just some local problem....