Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) slammed the Pentagon for ordering about 1,500 active-duty troopers to arrange for possible deployment to Minnesota the place federal authorities have been conducting an enormous immigration enforcement operation.
Showing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper talked about the troopers who’re on standby, prompting Frey to reply that “the act was clearly designed to intimidate the folks of Minneapolis.”
“Right here’s the factor: We’re not going to be intimidated. If the objective right here is security, we’ve received many mechanisms to realize security,” he stated. Frey didn’t specify the strategies he was referring to.
The mayor argued that the “greatest strategy to get security is to not have an inflow of much more brokers, and on this case, [the] army in Minneapolis.”
“Proper now now we have about 600 law enforcement officials, and so they’ve received 3,000 or so ICE brokers and Border Patrol,” he continued, “[They’re] now speaking about deploying 1,500 army? That is ridiculous, however we won’t be intimidated by the actions of this federal authorities.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Frey added, “I by no means thought in 1,000,000 years that we might be invaded by our personal federal authorities.”
On Sunday, two U.S. officers informed a number of retailers that as much as 1,500 U.S. active-duty troops in Alaska are at present on standby for doable deployment to Minnesota.
The transfer got here simply days after President Donald Trump threatened in a Truth Social post to invoke the Rebellion Act in response to rising tensions between protesters and federal brokers in Minneapolis.
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the legislation and cease the skilled agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who’re solely making an attempt to do their job, I’ll institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have achieved earlier than me, and shortly put an finish to the travesty that’s going down in that after nice State,” he wrote in a Jan. 15 put up.
Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem backed Trump’s remarks Thursday, telling reporters on the White Home that the right-wing chief “definitely has the constitutional authority to make the most of that.”
Whereas deploying the army for home legislation enforcement causes sometimes requires congressional authorization, Trump might probably bypass Congress’ approval by invoking the Nineteenth-century Rebellion Act (1807), which provides the president the ability to make use of the army domestically to thwart home uprisings.
The legislation was final enacted by President George H.W. Bush throughout the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
In a separate interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, host Margaret Brennan questioned Frey over the feedback he made earlier within the interview that ICE is “occupying drive” in Minneapolis, asking him, “Don’t you assume that’s a bit a lot?”
“When you will have 3,000 ICE brokers and [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] come to your metropolis, once you’ve received this supposed menace of 1,500 army coming to your metropolis, yeah, that’s very a lot what it seems like,” he responded.
Frey then added that “if the objective have been security, this isn’t the way you get there.”
Watch a clip from Frey’s “State of the Union” interview beneath.
