White House adviser Stephen Miller insisted that "foreign invaders" and others in Minnesota were staging "an insurgency against the federal government."
Just hours after President Donald Trump threatened to use the Insurrection Act to send troops into Minneapolis, Miller suggested to the hosts of The Charlie Kirk Show that there was an organized insurrection taking place in the state.
"These are the illegals that are being shielded," Miller said of Minnesota immigrants, "from deportation by the mayor, the attorney general, and the governor. In three of those individuals, you have a perfect illustration of how radical left Democrat governance consumes and destroys any paradise, any place over which they exert control."
"So these individuals are waging a campaign of insurrection against the federal government to protect foreign invaders who are in their state and to obstruct federal law enforcement," he continued. "And it is a direct challenge in every respect to the authority of the federal government and the idea, the bedrock idea, the bedrock fact of our republic."
Charlie Kirk Show host Blake Neff wondered if Miller expected "charges not just against rioters but against government officials who are abetting and encouraging this."
"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 to understand that this is clearly an insurgency against the federal government," Miller replied. "They are describing the federal government as an occupying force."
"They are asserting that they have the unfettered right to harbor aliens who have no right to be in this country, and to effectively, in fact, to incite violent insurrection from organized agitators against federal forces to prevent those federal forces from effectuating due to the enacted immigration law," he added.