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It’s been seven months since federal immigration agents touched down in Minnesota with a vengeance, killing two American citizens and violently assaulting countless others in a frenzied pursuit to accomplish President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Though the influx of agents eventually left Minnesota, taking their horrific behavior elsewhere, state officials have been busy attempting to pursue accountability, filing numerous cases against the federal officers who participated in the raids. Trump’s Justice Department has unsurprisingly been unwilling to work with them, and this week Texas took a page out of that book, refusing Minnesota’s extradition request for an agent charged with four felonies. On Thursday, that officer was released from jail, and it’s likely he may never have to answer for his charges in court.

In May, Minnesota prosecutors charged Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, with four felony counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon after he fired a gun into a Minneapolis home back in January knowing there were people inside. Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a 24-year-old migrant from Venezuela, was shot in the leg but survived. According to state prosecutors, Castro falsely claimed that Sosa-Celis and another man had attacked an ICE agent with a broom and shovel, and........

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