US Readies FBI, Troops for Possible Minnesota Surge to Back ICE
Demonstrators near federal law enforcement officers during a protest outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 17.
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The US is taking steps to vastly increase the number of law enforcement agents and potentially send military personnel to Minneapolis, where immigration agents have tangled with residents protesting their tactics.
The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 US troops based in Alaska to prepare to deploy to Minnesota as a precautionary measure in case the administration decides to send them, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The unit of the 11th Airborne Division is a cold-weather unit nicknamed “The Arctic Angels.”
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