Miller Claims Minnesota Authorities Were Ordered To ‘Stand Down’ Amid ICE Protests | EUROtoday

White House deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller alleged in a late-night social media publish that native and state police in Minneapolis have been ordered to “stand down and surrender” to federal authorities.

“Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender,” Miller wrote in a Jan. 18 X publish.

The weird assertion got here in response to an X publish earlier that day from New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who wrote that “local cops have gone AWOL” amid ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests.

Miller’s publish notably doesn’t acknowledge that beneath the tenth Amendment within the U.S. structure, federal authorities do not need the ability to command native legislation enforcement.

Protests sparked after an ICE officer, later recognized as Jonathan Ross, fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good earlier this month throughout an operation in Minneapolis. The Trump administration subsequently claimed that Good carried out “domestic terrorism,” additional igniting outrage and protests within the metropolis.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vilified Good throughout a press convention on the Texas border on Jan. 8, claiming that she “attacked [ICE agents] and those surrounding them” and “attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.” Noem made the remarks regardless of circulated footage of the incident not backing up her rhetoric about what transpired.

Following the incident, the Trump administration has been working to dam Minnesota authorities from participating within the FBI’s investigation into the capturing.

HuffPost reached out to the White House and native legislation enforcement in Minneapolis for remark.

Last week, Miller alleged that Minnesota state officers are staging “an insurgency against the federal government” as they’ve decried rising federal immigration operations in Minneapolis.

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,” he mentioned. “That’s the proposition that [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey and [Minnesota Attorney General Keith] Ellison and [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz are trying to test.”

Frey, who informed ICE brokers to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis” earlier this month, blasted the Pentagon Sunday for ordering about 1,500 active-duty troopers to arrange for doable deployment to Minnesota, calling the transfer “ridiculous.”

Appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Frey informed host Jake Tapper that “the act was clearly designed to intimidate the people of Minneapolis.”