{"id":12902,"date":"2026-01-16T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12902"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:25:04","slug":"tensions-remain-high-in-minnesota-as-aclu-files-lawsuit-and-trump-threatens-insurrection-act-us-politics-live-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12902","title":{"rendered":"Tensions remain high in Minnesota as ACLU files lawsuit and Trump threatens Insurrection Act \u2013 US politics live | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"liveblog-body\"><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><gu-island name=\"KeyEventsCarousel\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" props=\"{&quot;keyEvents&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;696a0b0b8f08ea50a5d41e3e&quot;,&quot;elements&quot;:[{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Hello and thank you for joining us on the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-politics\\&quot;&gt;US politics&lt;\/a&gt; live blog.&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;b29e0cbc-5022-425f-b318-2d9a31814227&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Tensions remain high in &lt;strong&gt;Minneapolis&lt;\/strong&gt; in the aftermath of the &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota-ice-shooting\\&quot;&gt;killing &lt;\/a&gt;of &lt;strong&gt;Renee Good&lt;\/strong&gt; by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;71220daa-9c97-467c-8479-7796356fcf6c&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;American Civil Liberties Union&lt;\/strong&gt; &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/aclu-lawsuit-ice-minnesota-trump\\&quot;&gt;filed a lawsuit &lt;\/a&gt;on Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and unlawful arrests, as &lt;strong&gt;Donald Trump&lt;\/strong&gt; &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/trump-insurrection-act-minnesota-ice-protests\\&quot;&gt;threatened to invoke&lt;\/a&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;Insurrection Act&lt;\/strong&gt; in response to the widespread protests against the federal immigration operations.&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;0bd06c56-381e-48c6-8095-2f7d93972985&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Minnesota\u2019s governor, &lt;strong&gt;Tim Walz&lt;\/strong&gt;, has urged demonstrators to \u201cspeak out loudly, urgently but also peacefully\u201d and made a direct appeal to the president to \u201cturn the temperature down.\u201d&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;c1f1d2a2-ce8e-408b-870f-726f45c87455&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;\u201cStop this campaign of retribution,\u201d Walz said &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/2011832759522615367?s=20\\&quot;&gt;in a statement&lt;\/a&gt;. \u201cThis is not who we are.\u201d&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;870eb170-bd9b-43aa-b196-315696009e44&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday night, a federal officer &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/14\/minnesota-immigration-officers-shovel-attack\\&quot;&gt;shot a man in the leg &lt;\/a&gt;during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, which sparked more protests.&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;5142598b-4d45-4d87-a63b-08629fa3d7f2&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;Following the shooting, the Minneapolis mayor, &lt;strong&gt;Jacob Frey&lt;\/strong&gt;, beseeched his constituents to \u201cnot take the bait\u201d and respond with violence. \u201cWe cannot counter Donald Trump\u2019s chaos with our own brand of chaos,\u201d he said.&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;362ec98e-f0cc-462d-baf0-1ad707789d88&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;In other developments:&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;99671d15-f3e6-47ae-af7f-2e0967530a75&quot;},{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement&quot;,&quot;html&quot;:&quot;&lt;ul&gt;\\n &lt;li&gt;\\n  &lt;p&gt;A group of US parliamentarians is visiting &lt;strong&gt;Copenhagen&lt;\/strong&gt; today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced on Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the US to discuss their \u201cfundamental\u201d disagreements over &lt;strong&gt;Greenland&lt;\/strong&gt; \u2013 but on Thursday, &lt;strong&gt;Karoline Leavitt,&lt;\/strong&gt; Trump\u2019s press secretary, maintained that the purpose of this working group was \u201cto continue to have &lt;strong&gt;technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland.&lt;\/strong&gt;\u201d Our colleague Jakub Krupa have more on that over on &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/jan\/16\/greenland-denmark-us-europe-live-news-updates\\&quot;&gt;the Europe live blog&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\\n &lt;li&gt;\\n  &lt;p&gt;In more immigration news, the death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in &lt;strong&gt;Texas&lt;\/strong&gt; in early January &lt;a href=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/ice-detention-camp-texas-death\\&quot;&gt;may be investigated as a homicide &lt;\/a&gt;after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was \u201casphyxia due to neck and chest compression\u201d.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\\n &lt;li&gt;\\n  &lt;p&gt;Venezuelan opposition leader &lt;strong&gt;Mar\u00eda Corina Machado &lt;\/strong&gt;met with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. After, she said that she had presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\\n &lt;li&gt;\\n  &lt;p&gt;An appeals court dismissed &lt;strong&gt;Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s&lt;\/strong&gt; lawsuit challenging his initial detention, and opened up the path for his re-arrest. Khalil \u2013 a green card holder and Columbia graduate \u2013 was released from an immigration detention facility last year, after he was initially arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/li&gt;\\n&lt;\/ul&gt;&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;56a597c0-5f71-4a7f-aef6-8f41b95b8873&quot;}],&quot;attributes&quot;:{&quot;pinned&quot;:false,&quot;keyEvent&quot;:true,&quot;summary&quot;:false},&quot;blockCreatedOn&quot;:1768565664000,&quot;blockCreatedOnDisplay&quot;:&quot;12.14\u00a0GMT&quot;,&quot;blockLastUpdated&quot;:1768565605000,&quot;blockLastUpdatedDisplay&quot;:&quot;12.13\u00a0GMT&quot;,&quot;blockFirstPublished&quot;:1768565664000,&quot;blockFirstPublishedDisplay&quot;:&quot;12.14\u00a0GMT&quot;,&quot;blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone&quot;:&quot;12.14&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Minnesota leaders call for peace as Trump threatens Insurrection Act in response to ICE protests&quot;,&quot;contributors&quot;:[],&quot;primaryDateLine&quot;:&quot;Fri 16 Jan 2026 12.14 GMT&quot;,&quot;secondaryDateLine&quot;:&quot;Last modified on Fri 16 Jan 2026 12.16 GMT&quot;}],&quot;filterKeyEvents&quot;:false,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;key-events-carousel-mobile&quot;,&quot;renderingTarget&quot;:&quot;Web&quot;,&quot;serverTime&quot;:1768566304182}\"><span id=\"key-events-carousel-mobile\"\/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><\/p>\n<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/gu-island><gu-island name=\"FilterKeyEventsToggle\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" props=\"{&quot;filterKeyEvents&quot;:false,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;filter-toggle-mobile&quot;}\"><span id=\"filter-toggle-mobile\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"dcr-alru3r\"><label id=\"filter-toggle-mobile-switch_description\" data-component=\"filter-key-events\" data-link-name=\"filter-key-events-on\" class=\"dcr-rrspei\"><button id=\"filter-toggle-mobile-switch\" role=\"switch\" aria-checked=\"false\" aria-labelledby=\"filter-toggle-mobile-switch_description\" class=\"dcr-dh5oqp\"\/>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p><span>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/label><\/div>\n<p><\/gu-island><\/span><\/p>\n<article id=\"block-696a0b0b8f08ea50a5d41e3e\" class=\"block dcr-1os4bxs\">\n<header class=\"dcr-88va8u\">\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Minnesota leaders call for peace as Trump threatens Insurrection Act in response to ICE protests<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hello and thank you for joining us on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-politics\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US politics<\/a> live blog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tensions remain high in <strong>Minneapolis<\/strong> in the aftermath of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota-ice-shooting\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">killing <\/a>of <strong>Renee Good<\/strong> by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <strong>American Civil Liberties Union<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/aclu-lawsuit-ice-minnesota-trump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">filed a lawsuit <\/a>on Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and unlawful arrests, as <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/trump-insurrection-act-minnesota-ice-protests\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">threatened to invoke<\/a> the <strong>Insurrection Act<\/strong> in response to the widespread protests against the federal immigration operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Minnesota\u2019s governor, <strong>Tim Walz<\/strong>, has urged demonstrators to \u201cspeak out loudly, urgently but also peacefully\u201d and made a direct appeal to the president to \u201cturn the temperature down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cStop this campaign of retribution,\u201d Walz said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/2011832759522615367?s=20\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis is not who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Wednesday night, a federal officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/14\/minnesota-immigration-officers-shovel-attack\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">shot a man in the leg <\/a>during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, which sparked more protests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Following the shooting, the Minneapolis mayor, <strong>Jacob Frey<\/strong>, beseeched his constituents to \u201cnot take the bait\u201d and respond with violence. \u201cWe cannot counter Donald Trump\u2019s chaos with our own brand of chaos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In other developments:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A group of US parliamentarians is visiting <strong>Copenhagen<\/strong> today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced on Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the US to discuss their \u201cfundamental\u201d disagreements over <strong>Greenland<\/strong> \u2013 but on Thursday, <strong>Karoline Leavitt,<\/strong> Trump\u2019s press secretary, maintained that the purpose of this working group was \u201cto continue to have <strong>technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland.<\/strong>\u201d Our colleague Jakub Krupa have more on that over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/jan\/16\/greenland-denmark-us-europe-live-news-updates\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the Europe live blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In more immigration news, the death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in <strong>Texas<\/strong> in early January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/15\/ice-detention-camp-texas-death\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">may be investigated as a homicide <\/a>after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was \u201casphyxia due to neck and chest compression\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Venezuelan opposition leader <strong>Mar\u00eda Corina Machado <\/strong>met with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. After, she said that she had presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An appeals court dismissed <strong>Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s<\/strong> lawsuit challenging his initial detention, and opened up the path for his re-arrest. 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