President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota if state lawmakers fail to stop protesters “from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.”
The president posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, Thursday morning that protesters – who he referred to as “professional agitators and insurrectionists” – were attacking agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanded “corrupt politicians” stop the attacks.
“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.
Anti-ICE protests have taken place in Minnesota and other parts of the U.S. in the days after an ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old mother, Renee Good, in Minneapolis. On Wednesday night, another ICE officer shot an immigrant in the leg in Minneapolis.
The 1807 Insurrection Act is an rarely used law that allows the president to utilize military troops or federalize National Guard troops in order to suppress uncontrollable protests or other civil disturbance situations in states.
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