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president Donald Trump have Threatening to Invoke the Insurrection Act exist minnesota If state lawmakers fail to stop protesters from ‘attacking ICE patriots’
The president posted on his social media platform “Truth Social” on Thursday morning that protesters – who he called “professional agitators and insurrectionists” – were attacking government agents. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asked “corrupt politicians” to stop the attacks.
“If Minnesota’s corrupt politicians don’t follow the law and stop professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking ICE Patriot organizations while they are just trying to do their jobs, I will enact rebellion lawMany presidents before me have done this and quickly ended the travesty taking place in this once great country,” Trump wrote.
Anti-ICE protests took place in Minneapolis and other major U.S. cities in the days after ICE agents were deployed Shot dead 37-year-old mother Renee Goode. Trump administration officials say the shooting was justified because Goode allegedly ‘Weaponizing’ her vehicle through contact She clashed with the officer as she tried to drive away from a group of agents surrounding her.
Another ICE officer in Minneapolis sparked protests to escalate Wednesday night Shoot immigrant in leg The government said it was an argument and the officer was attacked while trying to make an arrest.
“It feels as if this is part of his plan to launch this surge so that he can fully pursue his authoritarianism,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. independent. “He’s a wannabe dictator trying to grab as much power as possible. I think this chaos, this brutality, this confusion, is really designed to wear down the American people so he can wear them down.”
The Trump administration has deployed thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents to Minneapolis, the North Star State’s most populous city, as part of an effort to crack down on Somali immigration fraud and capture the “worst of the worst” so they can be deported. Large numbers of federal immigration enforcement agents have roamed city streets in unmarked vehicles over the past few weeks, engaging in violent confrontations with people they believe may be in the United States illegally — a practice that critics say is tantamount to racial profiling — while monitoring and often arresting protesters.
State and local officials have decried the massive federal presence as an “occupation” and accused the president of deliberately seeking to escalate and inflame the situation and using the resulting unrest as a pretext for violent crackdowns.
“The irony is that they come to terrorize the Somali community, but it’s our Latino neighbors who are being terrorized,” said Omar, who came to the United States from Somalia. “Our Asian neighbors are being terrorized, and ordinary people on the streets are being terrorized by federal law enforcement. It feels like state-sanctioned violence. And that should not be happening in the United States of America.”
The deployment of immigration officers to Minneapolis is the latest example of Trump’s push to use federal resources in a show of force against Democratic-led cities and states in hopes of provoking a response that would give him reason to send in active-duty troops for further crackdowns. rebellion law, An 1807 law that allows the president to use active military force or federalize the National Guard to suppress protests or other civil unrest beyond the control of states.
“This is an act of terror in our community that is degrading public safety,” said Rep. Kelly Morrison, D-Minn. independent. “So we need to do the opposite. ICE needs to get out of Minnesota.”
Although Trump claimed in his Truth Society post that “many” previous presidents have invoked the law, it has only been used on a handful of specific occasions over the past century. The last time it was invoked was more than three decades ago, when then-President George H.W. Bush dispatched the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to Los Angeles to quell unrest. Riots broke out after a group of police officers were acquitted on video of beating Rodney King, a black man, during a car chase.
Bush passed a bill invoking the act executive order At the request of then-California Governor Pete Wilson, on the third day of the riots, the U.S. government sent thousands of active-duty troops to support the thousands of National Guard troops already deployed there.
This is the second time Bush has invoked the act. The first was in 1989, helping to quell riots in the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Hugo.
In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson invoked the law and sent thousands of paratroopers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division to Detroit after then-Governor George Romney asked for help as state and local forces were overwhelmed by riots that ultimately left more than 40 people dead. Johnson’s two predecessors as presidents, John F. Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower, also used the law to protect students attending colleges and high schools in Mississippi and Arkansas without the governor’s consent.
While his predecessors used the centuries-old law only reluctantly or at the request of state officials, Trump has openly sought opportunities to use active-duty troops — which are generally prohibited from deploying in the United States to enforce domestic laws — to capture and pacify cities run by Democrats and populated largely by people who did not vote for him.
His focus on Minnesota’s largest city and the Insurrection Act dates back to his first term, when videotaped murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by Minneapolis police officers sparked racial justice protests across the United States that sometimes devolved into limited civil unrest.
When the protests reached Washington, Trump publicly floated the idea to aides of having soldiers violently suppress protesters.
In his 2021 book Frankly, we did win this election; Journalist Michael Bender reported that Trump told aides he wanted the military and police to “crush” protesters and “crack skulls.”
He also told senior military and law enforcement officials that National Guard troops deployed to Washington should “just shoot” protesters.
Trump moderated his demands when Gen. Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then-Attorney General William Barr reportedly rejected the suggestion.
“Well, shoot them in the leg — or maybe the foot,” Trump said. “But be tough on them!”
Since returning to office, he has repeatedly threatened to use the Insurrection Act to send troops into other Democratic-led cities, including Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.
Within hours of Trump’s bellicose rhetoric on social media, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters at the White House that she had discussed the Insurrection Act with him but declined to say whether she considered the Minneapolis riots an “insurrection.”
“I would describe it as [a] There are violent violations in many places,” she said.
Noem stressed that Trump “certainly has the constitutional authority” to invoke the law, while expressing hope that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis officials “start working with us to get criminals off the streets.”
Asked whether she recommended invoking the act to Trump, Noem responded that she had not done so.
“We just discussed that this is one of the options that the Constitution gives him, and we also discussed that we will continue our operations in Minneapolis and have the resources we need to get the job done,” she said.