"Today, Donald Trump announced that he is considering using the Insurrection Act to send the U.S. military to Minneapolis if state officials do not quell anti-ICE protests there. Deploying federal troops on American soil against the objections of state and local officials is an extreme measure--and seems likelier to inflame than to extinguish unrest there, given that needlessly provocative actions by ICE officers helped create conditions on the ground."
"In his telling, the perpetrators of recent insurrections against the United States include Joe Biden; the Colorado Supreme Court; U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani; U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston; Democrats; protesters in Los Angeles; protesters in Paramount, California; protesters in Compton, California; the city of Los Angeles; U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong; various "radical communist judges"; the Chicago Police Department; a crowd that the Chicago police didn't stop; an Oregon judge; and " Democrat lawmakers.""
Donald Trump said he is considering invoking the Insurrection Act to send U.S. military forces to Minneapolis if state officials do not quell anti-ICE protests. Deploying federal troops against state and local objections is presented as extreme and likely to inflame unrest, especially given provocative ICE actions that helped create conditions on the ground. The president labels protesters "professional agitators and insurrectionists," and administration officials have laid rhetorical groundwork for a martial crackdown. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has labeled a wide and disparate set of actors as insurrectionists, exemplifying a pattern of threat inflation used to justify maximal government responses.
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