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Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Minnesota to "put an end" to protests

  • On Jan. 15, 2026, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy U.S. military forces to Minnesota amid protests against immigration enforcement.
  • Operation Metro Surge deployed more than 2,000 federal immigration officers to the Twin Cities earlier this month, coinciding with the Jan. 7 fatal shooting of Renee Good, 37-year-old mother.
  • Clashes intensified as authorities deployed crowd-control tactics and on Jan. 14 a federal officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg after DHS said the officer was attacked in the Hawthorne Neighborhood of Minneapolis.
  • Minnesota officials have pushed back, filing legal challenges and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warned, `We cannot counter Donald Trump's chaos with our own brand of chaos`, while U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave the Justice Department until Monday to respond.
  • The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows presidents to deploy troops domestically and has been invoked 40 times, including the 1992 Los Angeles use by George H.W. Bush; Sen. Dick Durbin has urged reforms after President Donald Trump considered its use for protests.
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US President Donald Trump has escalated the democratically-led government in the U.S. state of Minnesota in a post on Truth Social with a military mission ... The post violence in Minnesota is escalating – Trump threatens military deployment in the state appeared first on Apollo News.

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Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the U.S. Insurrection Act to send the Army to Minnesota and placate protests and riots over the reinforced presence of federal immigration agents. The U.S. President warned after rioting again following a new shooting by a federal police officer, who injured an undocumented immigrant during a detention. Trump blamed the situation in Minneapolis, the state’s main city, on local leaders, who are Democrats and …

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An immigration officer shot and killed a woman in Minnesota, sparking protests in the area. US President Donald Trump has now threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to use the military domestically.

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scheerpost.com broke the news in on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
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