The Justice Department’s investigation is a major escalation in the state-federal battle over the conduct of immigration agents in Minneapolis.

President Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in the wake of widening protests over immigration enforcement in Minnesota and last week’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent.

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow the deployment of U.S. military forces in Minnesota as federal immigration agents clash with protesters in Minnesota

Trump has previously said he might invoke the 1807 law elsewhere without ever doing so. The president posted on Truth Social that he would use the law if Minnesota officials failed to stop the "professional agitators and insurrectionists".

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration's massive immigration crackdown.

President Donald Trump seems to have walked back his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell ongoing protests in Minneapolis, which are in response to Renee Good's killing by an ICE agent and an escalating immigration crackdown across Minnesota.

A Minnesota judge put limits Friday on the tactics that federal law enforcement are permitted to use in their handling of protests over the Trump administration's surge of immigration resources to the city.

Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters, a U.S. judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.