The Hill reports:

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Thursday claimed Minnesota state officials are staging “an insurgency against the federal government” as they push back on expanding federal immigration operations in Minneapolis.

Miller appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” on Real America’s Voice and was asked if the federal government was looking at possible charges “not just against rioters but against government officials who are abetting and encouraging” protests. Miller said that would ultimately be up to the Department of Justice.

“What I would say very clearly is that you only have to read their own words and hear their own words and judge their own conduct,” Miller continued. “Understand that this is clearly an insurgency against the federal government. They are describing a federal government as an occupying force. Just think about that for a second.”

He said the federal government is responsible for administering the law across all 50 states, including immigration law.

“We have one national currency, we have one national flag, we have one national Constitution, we have one national immigration law,” he added. “If you were to permit individual cities and states to ratify their own immigration laws for themselves, you wouldn’t have a republic and you wouldn’t have a country, and that’s the proposition that [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey and [Minnesota Attorney General Keith] Ellison and [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz are trying to test.”

He went on to accuse local and state leaders of inciting violence and insurrection among “outside agitators” against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota. [Continue reading…]