Colbert mocks Trump for sending 1,000 immigration agents to Minnesota

Stephen Colbert accused President Trump of 'invading Minnesota' after the administration announced it would send another 1,000 federal immigration agents to the state.

The deployment was announced in the wake of Renee Good's death and came as Minnesota joined Illinois in filing federal lawsuits saying the mass deployment to the Minneapolis and Chicago regions violated the Constitution.

On his show, Colbert quipped, 'Has anyone told him that they don't have oil? Because the best he's going to get is 50 million barrels of cream of mushroom soup.' He also joked about the 10th Amendment: 'I believe the 10th amendment is the one that says if you use the first nine amendments, you get a free sub.' Colbert imitated a Trump rant, beginning with 'Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts?' and ending with 'Fear not, great people of Minnesota, the day of reckoning and retribution is coming!'

Minnesota and Illinois have filed federal lawsuits arguing the deployments violated state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment; the source reports those legal challenges alongside the administration's announcement but does not report their outcomes.

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Culture, Stephen Colbert, Donald Trump, Minnesota, Renee Good, Ice