ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Walz activated units of the Minnesota National Guard to maintain order amid citizen resistance to President Trumps’s expanding campaign, now with 3,000 agents to find, arrest and deport immigrants. Earlier, as Trump kept bulking up his federal forces in the state, Walz had placed the Guard on alert — a preliminary step toward mobilization. Now with mobilization, the Guard is staging to support local police. Details on which Guard units have been mobilized were not announced. The Guard, all tolled, has 13,000 members, mostly part-time citizen-soldiers until mobilized into full-time status.
Walz. When first enlisted in Guard. At retirement a command sergeant major, the military’s top enlisted rank with significant administrative, management and supervisory duties.