Trump pulls back on plan to deploy troops to Minneapolis as Democrats hold hearing

President Trump appeared to back down from his threat to send military forces into Minneapolis, saying on Friday that he did not think he needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, while Democratic officials and activists held an unofficial congressional hearing in the Minnesota Senate Building to denounce federal immigration operations.

Witnesses at the session said convoys of Border Patrol and ICE agents had swarmed the city in the first two weeks of 2026, spreading fear and violating constitutional rights, and accused the administration of profiling residents of color, ripping apart immigrant families and wrongfully detaining U.S.

citizens. Representative Ilhan Omar, who organized the hearing with Representative Pramila Jayapal, said there was "no modern precedent for this level of federal overreach." A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, called the profiling claims a "disgusting charge," saying enforcement targets people based on immigration status.

Three Minnesota members of Congress — Kelly Morrison, Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig — tried to inspect immigration facilities at a federal building last week and were turned away after being briefly allowed inside, the hearing heard. The Pentagon had quietly alerted 200 Texas National Guard troops to be ready to deploy to Minnesota if the president invoked the Insurrection Act, according to a U.S.

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