Mayor Jacob Frey Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ Report Of Pentagon Readying Possible Troop Deployment To Minneapolis | EUROtoday

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) slammed the Pentagon for ordering about 1,500 active-duty troopers to organize for attainable deployment to Minnesota the place federal authorities have been conducting a large immigration enforcement operation.

Appearing 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 people of Minneapolis.”

“Here’s the thing: We’re not going to be intimidated. If the goal here is safety, we’ve got many mechanisms to achieve safety,” he stated. Frey didn’t specify the strategies he was referring to.

The mayor argued that the “best way to get safety is not to have an influx of even more agents, and in this case, [the] military in Minneapolis.”

“Right now we have about 600 police officers, and they’ve got 3,000 or so ICE agents and Border Patrol,” he continued, “[They’re] now talking about deploying 1,500 military? This is ridiculous, but we will not be intimidated by the actions of this federal government.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Frey added“I never thought in a million years that we would be invaded by our own federal government.”

On Sunday, two U.S. officers advised a number of shops that as much as 1,500 U.S. active-duty troops in Alaska are at the moment on standby for attainable deployment to Minnesota.

The transfer got here simply days after President Donald Trump threatened in a Truth Social publish to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to rising tensions between protesters and federal brokers in Minneapolis.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” he wrote in a Jan. 15 publish.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem backed Trump’s remarks Thursday, telling reporters on the White House that the right-wing chief “certainly has the constitutional authority to utilize that.”

While deploying the navy for home legislation enforcement causes sometimes requires congressional authorization, Trump might probably bypass Congress’ approval by invoking the Nineteenth-century Insurrection Act (1807), which supplies the president the facility to make use of the navy domestically to thwart home uprisings.

The legislation was final enacted by President George H.W. Bush in the course of 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 force” in Minneapolis, asking him, “Don’t you think that’s a bit much?”

“When you have 3,000 ICE agents and [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] come to your city, when you’ve got this supposed threat of 1,500 military coming to your city, yeah, that’s very much what it feels like,” he responded.

Frey then added that “if the goal were safety, this is not how you get there.”

Watch a clip from Frey’s “State of the Union” interview under.