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   From: noreply@mixmin.net   
      
   WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the   
   Insurrection Act against Minnesota if the state declines to stop rioters   
   from attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.   
      
   Under the Insurrection Act, the president can deploy the military and   
   federalize the National Guard in response to civil disorder or an armed   
   rebellion against the US government.   
      
   “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,” Trump   
   warned on Truth Social.   
      
   Trump’s threat comes in the aftermath of an ICE agent shooting a   
   suspected illegal immigrant during a scuffle at a traffic stop on   
   Wednesday evening in Minneapolis. Officials allege that two individuals   
   attacked the officer on behalf of the suspected illegal immigrant with a   
   shovel and a broom handle.   
      
   The subject of the stop then got loose and attacked the officer with   
   either a broomstick or a shovel before getting shot in the leg,   
   according to the Department of Homeland Security.   
      
   The individual, a Venezuelan man, is now in federal custody.   
      
   The shooting took place one week after another ICE officer fatally shot   
   activist Renee Good, who had accelerated her SUV in his direction.   
      
   Those two flashpoints have triggered days of protests in the Twin   
   Cities.   
      
   More than 3,000 immigration officers have been deployed to Minneapolis,   
   including ICE and Border Patrol personnel, according to Mayor Jacob   
   Frey, a number which dwarfs the roughly 600 officers of the city’s   
   police department.   
      
   “This is not sustainable,” Frey told reporters late Wednesday. “This is   
   an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in, and at   
   the same time we are trying to find a way forward, to keep people safe,   
   to protect our neighbors, to maintain order.”   
      
   Trump’s team began stepping up its crackdown on illegal immigration in   
   Minnesota in the wake of revelations about rampant benefits fraud   
   roiling the state.   
      
   Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s office did not immediately respond to a   
   request for comment about Trump’s threat.   
      
   Minnesota and Illinois sued the Trump administration earlier this week   
   in an effort to force it to end the surge of ICE in those states. DHS   
   claims the surge is necessary because of laws on the books there   
   limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with immigration   
   authorities.   
      
   https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/trump-threatens-ins   
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   The Insurrection Act has not been used since the 1992 Los Angeles riots   
   following the acquittal of four city police officers on assault charges   
   in the brutal beating of black motorist Rodney King.   
      
   The president has attempted other legal means to deploy the National   
   Guard to various states, such as Illinois, but has dropped those efforts   
   following legal setbacks.   
      
   The National Guard remains deployed in Washington, DC, but the federal   
   government has more power over the nation’s capital than other cities.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/us-news/trump-threatens-to-invoke-insurrect   
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