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 on Wednesday evening in Minneapolis. The individual is now in federal custody.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed the injured suspect had “violently assaulted the officer.”
The shooting took place one week after another ICE officer fatally shot activist Renee Good, who had accelerated her SUV in his direction.
