Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at a Minneapolis VA hospital, was also shot dead. Credit: X
But after Trump’s announcement threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, it now appears the situation may only worsen for citizens calling for the officers’ withdrawal.
The law would allow active-duty military personnel to enforce the law inside the US.
The President can use it when ‘rebellion’ makes it ‘impracticable to enforce’ US laws in the usual way.
However, Trump has escalated matters further with a sweeping ban on entry from 75 countries, with no clear timeline for when it might end.
Has Donald Trump previously banned countries from entering the US?
Unsurprisingly, it’s not the first time that Trump has banned numerous countries from the US.
In fact, he’s taken several executive actions restricting entry into America by certain foreign nationals.
During his first-term as President, he introduced travel bans which affected seven of the 49 Muslim-majority countries across the world, most of which were subsequently revoked by Joe Biden.
Another travel ban came into effect in June 2025, when he banned a further 12 countries from entering the US.
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The travel ban will come into effect sooner than people may assume. Credit: Alamy
But this time, the President has escalated his plans to a whole new degree – and, just five months before the start of the FIFA World Cup, which will be jointly hosted this year by America, Canada, and Mexico.
What will this mean?
