Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act if Minnesota Won’t Stop Violent ICE Rioters
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. (Read more from “Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act if Minnesota Won’t Stop Violent ICE Rioters” HERE)
