The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty troops to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the American newspaper reported. The Washington Post this Sunday (18), citing Defense authorities.
The Army has placed the units in a state of readiness for deployment should violence in the state increase, according to the report.
The move comes after US President Donald Trump if state authorities do not stop protesters from attacking immigration agents.
“If Minnesota’s corrupt politicians will not obey the law and stop professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking ICE Patriots who are just trying to do their jobs, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday.
The Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Insurrection Law
Trump’s threat on social media came shortly after a US immigration agent shot a Venezuelan man fleeing a police raid in Minneapolis on Wednesday (14), a week after the murder of an American citizen in the same city.
The state is experiencing tension under the Trump administration. Around two thousand federal agents have been mobilized as part of the White House’s latest crackdown on immigration.
The US Department of Homeland Security, responsible for overseeing Trump’s restrictive immigration policy, said that during Wednesday’s case, two people attacked the federal agent with a broomstick and a snow shovel as he struggled with the Venezuelan, who, according to the Department, was in the country illegally.
The Insurrection Act authorizes the president to mobilize military forces on American soil.
