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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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 After Minnesota AG Calls For Opposition
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Violent protests against the action of immigration agents in Minneapolis, USA, have raised the concern of the White House. Seeing the situation worsening, President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the army by implementing the Rebellion Act. Incessant shootings, arrests and harsh rhetoric have brought the city to the center of tension.
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