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Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Minnesota to "put an end" to protests
- 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 using Insurrection Act in Minneapolis would be a huge risk – even by his standards
President Donald Trump has been threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act for a very long time. Dating back to his first term, he has repeatedly floated the rarely invoked law, which gives a president extraordinary powers to dispatch the military to put down domestic unrest.
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