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An attorney representing the state of Minnesota kicked off the court hearing on Monday on the state's request to end Operation Metro Surge by describing demands Attorney General Pam Bondi presented to Gov. Tim Waltz as "a ransom note."

The attorney, Lindsey Middlecamp, said Bondi’s letter over the weekend asking Gov. Tim Walz to cooperate with federal agents and requesting information about the state's voter rolls and records on Medicaid and Food and Nutrition Service programs "can only be described as a ransom note."

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez pressed an attorney representing Minnesota on the state's request to end Operation Metro Surge, noting that "the federal government has a lot of power."

“You understand the federal government has a lot of power in this area, so I'm trying to figure out what principle you're asking me to apply that will sort out legal federal law enforcement from this 10th Amendment argument," Menendez said.

-ABC News' Laura Romero

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a social media post on Monday that border czar Tom Homan will be managing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota and coordinating with those investigating the alleged fraud in the state.

"Tom Homan will be managing ICE Operations on the ground in Minnesota to continue arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens," Leavitt said in the post on X. "In addition, Tom will coordinate with those leading investigations into the massive, widespread fraud that has resulted in billions of taxpayer dollars being stolen from law-abiding citizens in Minnesota."

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

A federal court hearing is set for Monday after a judge granted a temporary restraining order preventing Trump administration officials from destroying any evidence related to Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by a federal agent.

A separate hearing is also scheduled on Monday on whether to temporarily halt the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the government is not destroying evidence with respect to the Pretti case and called the state of Minnesota's claims they are "a show."

"There's an ongoing investigation, as we've said all weekend,” Blanche told "Fox and Friends" on Monday. "And obviously, we're not destroying evidence. And so, to the extent that the state of Minnesota wants to make this a show and go in front of a judge to insist that we do something we're absolutely not ever going to do, we'll be there."

-ABC News' Laura Romero and Luke Barr

President Trump announced that he'll be sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota on Monday night.

But the president is also continuing to try to draw attention away from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti over the weekend by focusing on other issues in the state, including writing about the alleged fraud there and mentioning Rep. Ilhan Omar.

"I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me," Trump wrote in a social media post.

Trump went on to claim that the Department of Justice and Congress are investigating Omar, but as of now, House committees are investigating alleged fraud in Minnesota, not specifically Omar.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie