American Riots: Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, and What Would be the Consequences?

by Barbara Listek

In this paper we discuss:

• The arrests made by US ICE over the last few months; 
• The protests against those arrests in several blue states;
• How Trump has federalised the National Guard in all countries; 
• The decision by Trump to send the Marines in California to tame the protests; 
• Whether Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and what could be the consequences. 

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