Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Anti-ICE Demonstrators in Minnesota's Twin Cities

"Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion."

""If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social."

"Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota's Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration's deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents and their violent raids of immigrant communities. His threat comes a week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renée Nicole Good, who was attempting to drive away as agents surrounded her car."

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the U.S. military in Minnesota to quell protests related to federal immigration enforcement. The threat targeted protests in the Twin Cities that followed the deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents and reported violent raids of immigrant communities. The threat came a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renée Nicole Good as agents surrounded her car. The Insurrection Act grants the president authority to call state militia and use armed forces when ordinary judicial proceedings make enforcement impracticable. Trump framed state officials and protesters as obstructing ICE.

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