Army Puts 1,500 Soldiers on Standby for Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The Associated Press reports the Pentagon has placed 1,500 active-duty soldiers on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota, ostensibly for a 'massive immigration enforcement operation.' This move, we’re told, is contingent on the President invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely-used 1807 law for deploying military against domestic unrest. One might wonder why a federal immigration agency
requires an entire Arctic-trained infantry division to conduct its 'operations' in Minnesota, or why standard law enforcement isn't sufficient. (Perhaps the 'insurrectionists' President Trump mentioned online are less about protest and more about resisting federal power.) This isn't about mere 'protests' or 'cracking down on agitators.' This is the state preparing to use its ultimate hammer, the
military, against its own people under the guise of an 'immigration crackdown.' The chilling implication is not just about immigration policy, but about a government's willingness to label dissent, or even resistance to federal actions, as an 'insurrection' warranting active-duty troop deployment—a dangerous escalation of executive power that history shows rarely ends well for civil liberties.