US EditionTrump threatens to impose Insurrection Act, send troops into Minneapolis
President Trump threatened to use a 200-year-old law to deploy troops to quell protests over federal immigration enforcement amid escalating violence in Minneapolis.
- 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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Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act to quell ICE protests in Minneapolis
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown.
Donald Trump threatened Thursday to invoke an emergency law that would allow him to deploy the army to Minneapolis, in the wake of new clashes between law enforcement and protesters following a new incident involving the immigration police (ICE). ...
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act amid Minnesota protests
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to deploy the military in the state of Minnesota to quell widespread protests over an immigration crackdown.Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act — days after a federal agent fatally shot a US citizen in Minneapolis, and hours after another immigration officer wounded a man — reflects the president’s emboldened push for military intervention both at home and abroad.From Venezuela to Minnes…
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