Pentagon Prepares 1500 TROOPS - For Possible MINNESOTA INVASION

Pentagon Prepares 1500 TROOPS - For Possible MINNESOTA INVASION

Jan. 19, 2026

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The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government’s deportation drive, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday.

The US army placed the units on prepare to deploy orders in case violence in the Midwestern state escalates, the officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent.

Donald Trump has threatened to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces if Democratic officials in the state do not stop protesters from impeding immigration officials after a surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Increasingly tense confrontations between residents and federal officers have erupted in Minneapolis since Renee Good, a 37 year old mother of three, was murdered behind the wheel of her car by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on the 7th of January.

The city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, said on Sunday that any military deployment would be “ridiculous” and only exacerbate tensions in Minnesota’s largest city, where the Trump administration has already sent 3,000 immigration and border patrol officers who have been confronted by largely peaceful protests.

“That would be a shocking step,” Frey told NBC News. “We don’t need more federal agents to keep people safe. We are safe.”

Confrontations between federal officers and protesters in the city intensified after the murder of Good, which Donald Trump has called justified.

Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked an unrelated scandal around the theft of federal funds intended for social welfare programs in Minnesota as a rationale for sending in immigration agents. Donald Trump and administration officials have singled out the state’s community of the African, Somali immigrants.

ICE agents are targeting other immigrant communities in the Twin Cities as well. On Sunday, agents entered a St Paul house and removed an elderly man who was wearing only underwear and a blanket as onlookers shouted at them to leave. The man was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the region from Laos starting in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam war. About one-third of the US Hmong population are immigrants, according to the Pew Research Center.

Local politicians have accused Donald Trump, of federal overreach and of exaggerating isolated episodes of violence to justify sending in troops.

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