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- Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops to Minneapolis to end protests against immigration enforcement operations. An ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good on Jan.
- 7, and another federal officer fired on a man Wednesday, escalating tensions.
- President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday as part of his immigration crackdown, blaming politicians in Minnesota who have opposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ presence in the city and decried their violence against protesters.“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,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. The president made his threat a day after a federal immigration officer shot a Minneapolis man in the leg.
