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Anna Betts

Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act in Minnesota in response to ICE protests

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High school students protest against ICE outside the Minnesota state capitol in St Paul. Photograph: Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota in response to protests in Minneapolis against federal immigration enforcement operations, as Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, overnight urged demonstrators in Minneapolis to be peaceful amid escalating tensions.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would use the Insurrection Act and “quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place” if the “corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE”.

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