Minnesota leaders call for peace as Trump threatens Insurrection Act in response to ICE protests<\/p>\n
Hello and thank you for joining us on the US politics<\/a> live blog.<\/p>\n Tensions remain high in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing <\/a>of Renee Good by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.<\/p>\n The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit <\/a>on Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and unlawful arrests, as Donald Trump threatened to invoke<\/a> the Insurrection Act in response to the widespread protests against the federal immigration operations.<\/p>\n Minnesota\u2019s governor, Tim Walz, has urged demonstrators to \u201cspeak out loudly, urgently but also peacefully\u201d and made a direct appeal to the president to \u201cturn the temperature down\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cStop this campaign of retribution,\u201d Walz said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis is not who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n On Wednesday night, a federal officer shot a man in the leg <\/a>during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, which sparked more protests.<\/p>\n After the shooting, Minneapolis\u2019s mayor, Jacob Frey, beseeched his constituents to \u201cnot take the bait\u201d and respond with violence. \u201cWe cannot counter Donald Trump\u2019s chaos with our own brand of chaos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In other developments:<\/p>\n A group of US parliamentarians is visiting Copenhagen today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced on Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the US to discuss their \u201cfundamental\u201d disagreements over Greenland \u2013 but on Thursday, Karoline Leavitt, Trump\u2019s press secretary, maintained that the purpose of this working group was \u201cto continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland\u201d. Our colleague Jakub Krupa has more on that over on the Europe live blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n In more immigration news, the death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in Texas in early January may be investigated as a homicide<\/a> after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was \u201casphyxia due to neck and chest compression\u201d.<\/p>\n Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado met with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Afterward, she said that she had presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal.<\/p>\n An appeals court dismissed Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s lawsuit challenging his initial detention, and opened up the path for his rearrest. Khalil \u2013 a green card holder and Columbia graduate \u2013 was released from an immigration detention facility last year, after he was initially arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.44 EST<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n White House economic advisor says he expects there is \u2018nothing to see\u2019 when it comes to criminal investigation of Jerome Powell<\/p>\n Kevin Hassett, chair of the White House economic council, said that he expects there is \u201cnothing to see here\u201d when it comes to the ongoing criminal investigation of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell by the justice department. In an interview with Fox News, Hassett said that he wishes the Fed had been \u201cmore transparent\u201d when it comes to Powell\u2019s congressional testimony about the ongoing renovations to the central bank that are at the heart of the probe.<\/p>\n Hassett, who is a contender for the top job at the Fed when Powell leaves the role in May, said that, if offered, he would take the job with a commitment to \u201cindependence and transparency\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s something the Fed could have done better in the past,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Donald Trump will hold a rural health roundtable at the White House at 10am ET, and we\u2019ll bring you the latest lines from that meeting. Notable, because this comes after the White House unveiled its \u201cGreat Healthcare Plan\u201d this week \u2013 which experts the Guardian spoke to criticized as having \u201cabsolutely no detail\u201d.<\/p>\n Trump will then travel to Palm Beach, Florida, where he\u2019ll take part in a dedication ceremony for a stretch of road \u2013 that leads to his Mar-a-Lago estate \u2013 to be named in his honor.<\/p>\n Donald J Trump Boulevard, coming to a GPS near you \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.39 EST<\/p>\n After the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, calls are growing for accountability in the fatal shooting of Keith Porter Jr in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Porter, a 43-year-old father of two, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on New Year\u2019s Eve outside his apartment complex.<\/p>\n While a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson said the off-duty immigration officer was \u201cforced to defensively use his weapon\u201d while responding to an \u201cactive shooter\u201d, much about the incident remains unclear. There is no footage of the shooting and Porter\u2019s family and local activists have argued<\/a> that, contrary to the DHS\u2019s portrayal of the events, Porter was not threatening anyone and was celebrating the new year.<\/p>\n The Guardian\u2019s Sam Levin has more here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n More than 2,400 people have been arrested in the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota over the recent weeks \u2013 including some who had valid visas and a right to be in the US, according to local leaders who have been responding to constituents affected by the raids and lawyers representing immigrants.<\/p>\n Several refugees with legal status have also been arrested in recent days after the Trump administration said it would \u201cre-examine thousands of refugee cases<\/a>\u201d, the Guardian has confirmed.<\/p>\n The Guardian\u2019s Maanvi Singh and Rachel Leingang are in Minneapolis reporting on the families being ripped apart by these federal immigration operations. Read more here:<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Here are some images coming in overnight on the wires from Minneapolis:<\/p>\n People during an anti-ICE protest outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis on 15 January. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty ImagesPeople stand in front of federal officers in Minneapolis. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty ImagesLaw enforcement officers arrest a protester outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 15 January. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty ImagesAn unidentified federal agent holds up a flashbang grenade at protesters during a demonstration on 15 January 2026 against federal immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis. Photograph: Tom Hudson\/ZUMA Press Wire\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a008.42 EST<\/p>\n Minnesota leaders call for peace as Trump threatens Insurrection Act in response to ICE protests<\/p>\n Hello and thank you for joining us on the US politics<\/a> live blog.<\/p>\n Tensions remain high in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing <\/a>of Renee Good by a federal agent. About 3,000 immigration officers are either continuing their operations in Minnesota or are en route to deploy in the state.<\/p>\n The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit <\/a>on Thursday against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and unlawful arrests, as Donald Trump threatened to invoke<\/a> the Insurrection Act in response to the widespread protests against the federal immigration operations.<\/p>\n Minnesota\u2019s governor, Tim Walz, has urged demonstrators to \u201cspeak out loudly, urgently but also peacefully\u201d and made a direct appeal to the president to \u201cturn the temperature down\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cStop this campaign of retribution,\u201d Walz said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis is not who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n On Wednesday night, a federal officer shot a man in the leg <\/a>during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, which sparked more protests.<\/p>\n After the shooting, Minneapolis\u2019s mayor, Jacob Frey, beseeched his constituents to \u201cnot take the bait\u201d and respond with violence. \u201cWe cannot counter Donald Trump\u2019s chaos with our own brand of chaos,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In other developments:<\/p>\n A group of US parliamentarians is visiting Copenhagen today for talks with senior Danish and Greenlandic officials. The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers announced on Wednesday that they were forming a working group with the US to discuss their \u201cfundamental\u201d disagreements over Greenland \u2013 but on Thursday, Karoline Leavitt, Trump\u2019s press secretary, maintained that the purpose of this working group was \u201cto continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland\u201d. Our colleague Jakub Krupa has more on that over on the Europe live blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n In more immigration news, the death of a man who was being held at a federal detention camp in Texas in early January may be investigated as a homicide<\/a> after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was \u201casphyxia due to neck and chest compression\u201d.<\/p>\n Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado met with Donald Trump at the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Afterward, she said that she had presented Trump with her Nobel peace prize medal.<\/p>\n An appeals court dismissed Mahmoud Khalil\u2019s lawsuit challenging his initial detention, and opened up the path for his rearrest. Khalil \u2013 a green card holder and Columbia graduate \u2013 was released from an immigration detention facility last year, after he was initially arrested for his role in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n