Source: Axios
“President Trump on Thursday threatened to deploy U.S. military forces under the Insurrection Act to Minneapolis if state officials don’t stop protests against the sprawling immigration enforcement operation. Every modern use of the Insurrection Act has come either at a governor’s request or to expand civil rights protections over state objections. Trump would flip that script, sending troops against a governor’s wishes to crush protests of the federal government’s own actions. The situation has grown increasingly amid a surge in ICE activity and last week’s [murder] of Renee Good by an ICE agent. … Trump’s threat, posted to Truth Social, came hours after the second ICE shooting in the Twin Cities in a week, when an agent shot a Venezuelan man in the leg during what the Department of Homeland Security described as an ‘ambush.'” (01/15/26)