The week saw lawsuits against the administration, sweeping immigration actions, and major shifts in environmental and visa policy.
Trump’s 52nd week brought updates to immigration, lawsuits, and environmental policy. Following a previous report from The Introspective detailing Renee Good—a U.S. citizen—being shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, a second person was shot in Minneapolis with non-life-threatening injuries, raising implications as Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act—a 1807 law that allows the president to deploy the military within the United States to end unrest—as Minnesota and both Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over increased ICE operations.
With anti-immigrant sentiment ongoing, Trump later announced that sanctuary cities and states will lose federal funding by Feb. 1. At the same time, the administration announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Somalia would end, following previous reports from The Introspective detailing alleged fraud within Minnesota’s Somali population and another report detailing TPS ending for immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Meanwhile, the Trump administration announced that visa processing would be suspended for more than 75 countries.
Following a previous Introspective report detailing the Pentagon investigating Sen. Mark Kelly after the lawmaker joined a video urging troops and intelligence personnel to refuse “illegal orders,” Kelly later filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing that the Pentagon’s effort to reduce his retirement rank and military pension would “trample on protections” outlined in the Constitution. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would no longer consider public health risks when setting pollution regulations.
Immigration
Following Renee Good being shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis last week, a man was shot in the leg by an ICE agent during a traffic stop Wednesday night, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alleging that the man and two additional people attacked agents with a shovel and broom after attempting to “evade arrest.”
“The law enforcement officer caught up to the subject on foot and attempted to apprehend him when the subject began to resist and violently assault the officer,” DHS wrote on X.
“As the officer was being ambushed and attacked by the two individuals, the original subject got loose and began striking the officer with a shovel or broomstick,” it continued.
“Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life. The initial subject was hit in the leg.”
Amid increased tensions, the city of Minneapolis acknowledged the shooting on X, while emphasizing that the man shot had non-life-threatening injuries.
“We understand there is anger,” the city wrote.
“We ask the public to remain calm.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the increased tensions “not sustainable,” raising implications as more than 3,000 ICE agents have been deployed to the Twin Cities—more than the police departments of both Minneapolis and St. Paul combined.
“This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in, and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order,” he said.
“Don’t give him what he wants,” he wrote on X.
Trump later threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in a Truth Social post, calling politicians in Minnesota “corrupt.”
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” he wrote.
This comes as both Minnesota and the Twin Cities filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over increased ICE operations in the area.
“President Trump expressed the root of his displeasure in plain terms during a recorded interview: he essentially claimed that Minnesota is ‘corrupt’ and ‘crooked’ because its officials accurately reported election results and those results did not declare him the winner,” the lawsuit read, referring to a prior interview by the president.
“Minneapolis and Saint Paul are now the latest of the cities widely considered to be Democratic cities with elected leaders who do not politically align with Trump to be flooded with federal agents,” the lawsuit continued.
“DHS has made clear that ICE ‘will continue to surge into sanctuary jurisdictions nationwide.’”
Minnesota And Twin Cities Lawsuit
Trump later announced that federal funding to sanctuary cities and states would end by Feb. 1.
“EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY FIRST, NO MORE PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STATES FOR THEIR CORRUPT CRIMINAL PROTECTION CENTERS KNOWN AS SANCTUARY CITIES,” he wrote on Truth Social.
The administration later announced that Temporary Protected Status protections for immigrants from Somalia would end March 17, following a previous Introspective report detailing alleged fraud within Minnesota’s Somali population.
“Temporary means temporary. Country conditions in Somalia have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press release.
“Further, allowing Somali nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interests. We are putting Americans first.”
Meanwhile, the State Department announced it is suspending immigrant visa processing for 75 countries.
“The State Department will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates,” the department wrote on X.
“The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
The full list of countries includes Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
Lawsuits and EPA
Following a previous Introspective report detailing the Pentagon investigating Sen. Mark Kelly after the lawmaker joined a video urging military troops to refuse “illegal orders,” Kelly later filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arguing that the Pentagon’s effort to reduce his retirement rank and military pension would “trample on protections” outlined in the Constitution.
“It appears that never in our nation’s history has the Executive Branch imposed military sanctions on a member of Congress for engaging in disfavored political speech,” the lawsuit read.
“Allowing defendants to punish a senator through military proceedings for his political speech erodes the separation of powers and gives the executive a power over legislators that the Constitution does not contemplate.”
Mark Kelly Lawsuit
In a statement, Kelly accused Hegseth of political retaliation.
“Pete Hegseth is coming after what I earned through my twenty-five years of military service, in violation of my rights as an American, as a retired veteran, and as a United States senator whose job is to hold him—and this or any administration—accountable,” he said.
“His unconstitutional crusade against me sends a chilling message to every retired member of the military: If you speak out and say something that the president or secretary of defense doesn’t like, you will be censured, threatened with demotion, or even prosecuted.”
At the same time, the EPA said it would no longer consider public health risks when setting pollution regulations.
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