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Protesters for and against the Trump administration’s latest migration crackdown clashed successful Minneapolis connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) arsenic the Governor’s bureau announced that National Guard troops had been mobilised and stood acceptable to assistance authorities instrumentality enforcement, though they were not yet deployed to metropolis streets.
There person been protests each time since the Department of Homeland Security ramped up migration enforcement successful the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul by bringing successful much than 2,000 national officers.
A ample radical of protesters turned retired successful downtown Minneapolis and confronted a overmuch smaller radical of radical attending an anti-Somali and pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rally. They chased the pro-ICE radical distant and forced astatine slightest 1 subordinate to instrumentality disconnected a garment they deemed objectionable.
Jake Lang, who organised the anti-Islam and pro-ICE demonstration, appeared to beryllium injured arsenic helium near the scene, with bruises and scrapes connected his head. He said via societal media beforehand that helium intended to “burn a Quran” connected the steps of City Hall, but it was not wide if helium carried retired that plan.
Lang was antecedently charged with assaulting an serviceman with a shot bat, civilian upset and different crimes earlier receiving clemency arsenic portion of President Donald Trump's sweeping enactment of clemency for January 6 defendants past year. Lang precocious announced that helium is moving for U.S. Senate successful Florida.
In Minneapolis, snowballs and h2o balloons were besides thrown earlier an armoured constabulary van and heavy equipped metropolis constabulary arrived.
“We’re retired present to amusement Nazis and ICE and DHS and MAGA you are not invited successful Minneapolis,” protester Luke Rimington said. “Stay retired of our city, enactment retired of our state. Go home.”
National Guard staged and ready
The authorities defender said successful a connection that it had been “mobilized” by Democratic Governor Tim Walz to enactment the Minnesota State Patrol “to assistance successful providing postulation enactment to support life, sphere property, and enactment the rights of each Minnesotans to assemble peacefully.”
Major Andrea Tsuchiya, a spokesperson for the guard, said it was “staged and ready” but yet to beryllium deployed.
The announcement came much than a week aft Mr. Walz, a predominant professional and people of Mr. Trump, told the defender to beryllium acceptable to enactment instrumentality enforcement successful the state.
During the regular protests, demonstrators person railed against masked migration officers pulling radical from homes and cars and different assertive tactics. The cognition successful the profoundly wide Twin Cities has claimed astatine slightest 1 life: Renee Good, a U.S. national and parent of three, was changeable by an ICE serviceman during a January 7 confrontation.
On Friday (January 16, 2026), a federal justice ruled that migration officers cannot detain oregon teardrop state peaceful protesters who are not obstructing authorities, including portion observing officers during the Minnesota crackdown.
