January 15, 2026

Hey, it’s Katie Herchenroeder here.

This morning, I wrote up the latest on the crisis in Minneapolis for immigrants—and those who seek to help them. An already untenable situation became even more intense Wednesday night and into Thursday after a federal agent shot another person during an immigration operation. The shooting comes just one week after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in her car.

President Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, a 19th-century law that allows the president to deploy the US military domestically.

This, of course, isn’t a new idea for the administration.

Back in 2023, Stephen Miller, Trump’s longtime adviser, told the New York Times that they were already planning to invoke the law to apprehend immigrants should Trump return to power. Enter Minneapolis, a city the administration paints as violent and lawless, even as its own agents violently pull a woman from her car, repeatedly deploy chemical agents on protesters, and otherwise continue their campaign against anyone DHS claims is in the country without legal status—in their homes, at school, at work.

Here at Mother Jones, we’re not going to stop reporting on ICE and its operations across the nation. I hope you’ll continue to tune in.

—Katie Herchenroeder

A Federal Agent Shot Another Person in Minneapolis. Then Trump Threatened the Insurrection Act.

Gov. Tim Walz said the federal government is waging “a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota.”

BY KATIE HERCHENROEDER

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