Walz activates National Guard in Minnesota. Crowd vandalizes hotel believed to house federal agents. Violent ICE confrontations cluster in a handful of counties.

Walz Activates National Guard in Minnesota
By Solange Reyner | Saturday, 24 January 2026

(newsmax.com) – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has activated the Minnesota National Guard at the request of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office after a federal agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

“Due to the potential for continuing and growing conflict related to today’s federal agent-involved shooting, Sheriff Dawanna Witt has requested assistance from the Minnesota National Guard to support our deputies at the Whipple Federal Building so that we can reallocate deputies to other areas in need of support in the county,” the sheriff’s office said.

“Their job will be to assist the Sheriff’s Office in protecting life, preserving property, and helping to ensure the safety of all community members.”

Walz on Saturday said the federal government’s “Operation Metro Surge,” a Border Patrol-Department of Homeland Security effort to deploy agents into major U.S. cities to help federal partners with immigration enforcement and related operations, has to end.

Federal authorities have deployed roughly 2,000 to 3,000 immigration enforcement agents to Minnesota under Operation Metro Surge…

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/tim-walz-minnesota-national-guard/2026/01/24/id/1243419/

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