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 to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minnesota AG Calls For Opposition
There is a sickness spreading through America’s cities. It is a rot that begins at the top, where elected officials sworn to uphold the law... The post Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minnesota AG Calls For Opposition appeared first on Patriot Journal.
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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