US EditionTrump threatens to impose Insurrection Act, send troops into Minneapolis
- President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to send troops into Minneapolis amid increasing protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
- Protests escalated after an ICE agent shot a man during an attempted arrest, prompting increased tensions and criticism from local officials.
- Minnesota officials filed lawsuits claiming the Trump administration's immigration crackdown violates federal law and infringes on First Amendment protections.
- Protests escalated in Minneapolis after a series of confrontations between federal agents and protesters, leading to calls for both federal intervention and local resistance actions.
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Trump threatens to invoke an 1807 law, deploy troops to end protests in Minneapolis
President Donald Trump's threat on Thursday to use the Insurrection Act comes after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a shovel and broom handle.
By Holly Yan, Zachary B. Wolf, Karina Tsui and Amanda Musa, CNN. Tensions flared again in Minneapolis on Thursday following the second shooting by a federal immigration agent in just one week, as President Donald Trump threatened to invoke a century-old law that would allow the deployment of US troops to Minnesota. Heated clashes broke out several times between protesters and law enforcement outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, as …
Since the murder of a 37-year-old American woman by an immigration officer, tensions have been high between the people of Minneapolis and the ICE police, whose presence has created a climate of terror.
Presidents rarely use the Insurrection Act. How Trump might invoke it in Minnesota.
President Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act as protesters clash with ICE in Minnesota. The 1807 act allows presidents to deploy a military presence on U.S. streets in rare circumstances.
Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to invoke the 1807 U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Army or National Guard law to suffocate the persistent protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents dispatched to Minneapolis last Tuesday.
Trump threatens to send troops to Minneapolis under Insurrection Act
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — 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.
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