{"id":13354,"date":"2026-01-18T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13354"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:39:09","slug":"fbi-asks-agents-to-voluntarily-travel-to-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=13354","title":{"rendered":"FBI asks agents to voluntarily travel to Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The FBI is asking agents across the US to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty, according to people familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n

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The bureau in recent days sent messages to agents nationwide seeking volunteers to temporarily transfer to the city, the people said. The messages didn\u2019t specifically reference the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests that have escalated in the city and didn\u2019t detail the assignment, the people said.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have already been increasing their presence in Minneapolis. The city has become a focal point of anti-ICE protests since an officer shot and killed a woman, Renee Good, on Jan. 7 while she was in her car.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the FBI would ask agents who volunteered to travel to Minneapolis to do. FBI agents have traditionally focused on national security-related tasks such as counter-terrorism, organized crime and high-profile violent crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FBI Director Kash Patel and US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Friday visited Minneapolis, according to a\u00a0post\u00a0shared on Patel\u2019s X account. Patel said in the post that the FBI was \u201ccracking down on violent rioters and investigating the funding networks supporting the criminal actors with multiple arrests already.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has also threatened to send military forces to quell demonstrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A federal judge on Friday\u00a0ordered\u00a0immigration officers not to arrest, detain, pepper-spray or otherwise retaliate against peaceful protesters in Minneapolis after demonstrators alleged their constitutional rights were being violated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security \u201cis taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters,\u201d Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the agency, said in a statement to Bloomberg in response to the ruling.<\/p>\n

Immigration has traditionally not been a core FBI mission. Roughly one-quarter of agents within the bureau were assigned to work on immigration-related duties, according to data that Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat,\u00a0shared with media outlets\u00a0in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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