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Federal agents stand guard as demonstrators and community members gather near the scene where federal agents shot a man during an immigration raid in Minneapolis on Wednesday.<\/span>Jim Vondruska\/NurPhoto\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Trump administration\u2019s <\/span>offensive<\/a> against immigrants in Minneapolis\u2014and those who seek to help them\u2014continued to intensify Wednesday night and into Thursday after a federal agent shot another person during an immigration operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n President Donald Trump, in a Thursday morning Truth social post, threatened<\/a> to invoke the Insurrection Act\u2014a centuries-old law that allows the president to deploy the US military domestically.\u00a0<\/p>\n The move comes after another chaotic night in Minneapolis during which a federal agent shot a man in the leg, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The City of Minneapolis said<\/a> that the man was taken to the hospital with a non-life threatening injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to DHS, the man was a Venezuelan national who was a target in an immigration operation. The federal agency claimed<\/a> in a statement on X that officers were assaulted on the scene prior to the shooting and that an agent was also taken to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n This latest shooting by a federal agent comes just one week after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed<\/a> Ren\u00e9e Nicole Good in her car.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a post commenting on initial reports of the shooting, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday evening that there was a \u201cMinnesota insurrection\u201d happening. Blanche, who used to be Trump\u2019s personal attorney, accused Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of \u201cencouraging violence against law enforcement.\u201d Both Frey and Walz have multiple<\/a> times<\/a> called<\/a> for peaceful protests against ICE\u2019s actions in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWalz and Frey,\u201d Blanche wrote, \u201cI\u2019m focused on stopping YOU from your terrorism by whatever means necessary. This is not a threat. It\u2019s a promise.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n President Trump threatening to send the military into a US city under the Insurrection Act isn\u2019t a new idea for the administration. Back in 2023 in an interview<\/a> with the New York Times<\/em>, Stephen Miller, Trump\u2019s longtime adviser, said that they were already planning to invoke the law to apprehend immigrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n The ongoing situation in Minneapolis has been intensifying for over a month<\/a> and has only become more acute after the killing of Good. Videos from the frontlines, including many published by Mother Jones<\/em>, show federal agents violently pulling<\/a> a woman from her car, repeatedly<\/a> deploying<\/a> chemical agents on protesters, and otherwise continuing their offensive against those DHS claims are in the country without legal status\u2014in their home<\/a>, at school<\/a>, and at work<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n