US EditionTrump threatens to impose Insurrection Act, send troops into 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 the Insurrection Act and Send Troops to Minnesota
President Trump began his day on Thursday by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, which could allow him to deploy troops to Minneapolis to stamp out the increasingly volatile clashes between protesters and federal agents that have gripped the city since an immigration agent shot and killed a woman there last week. It was a dramatic — yet familiar — provocation from this president. He has mused about using the Insurrection Act in t…
Trump Threatens Military Action in Minnesota Over ICE Protests
Just hours after a man was shot in the leg by federal law enforcement, United States ruler Donald Trump threatened to use the military in Minnesota to quell protests. Trump said he could invoke the “Insurrection Act” over widespread demonstrations after federal agents shot and wounded a man, and in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a protester by an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent last week. “If the corrupt politicians of Mi…
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.
Trump itching to turn the military on Americans
Once again, Donald Trump says he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act in response to protests. This time in Minneapolis, where folks are demonstrating peacefully against a wave of Immigration and Customs Enforcement violence and abuse. The move would allow him to deploy the U.S. — Read the rest The post Trump itching to turn the military on Americans appeared first on Boing Boing.
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