Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act amid Minnesota ICE tensions

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Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act amid Minnesota ICE tensions

January 15, 2026
NEWS SOURCE: WMAR2News
AUTHOR:WMAR2News

WMAR2News

January 15, 2026

Protesters at Foley Square by the federal government building protesting the ICE killing of Renee Good hours earlier. People spoke at the monument, before walking around 26 Federal Plaza, and ending back at Foley Square. SWinxy Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he could invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and allow the U.S. military to be used for law enforcement purposes amid tension in Minnesota.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act,” Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social.

The post comes one day after a federal officer shot a person in the leg after allegedly being attacked with a shovel. The shooting was about five miles from the location where an immigration agent shot Renee Good in the head on Jan. 7 as she attempted to drive away.