President Donald Trump’s top aide, Stephen Miller, claimed late Sunday that local and state law enforcement in Minnesota have been instructed to “stand down and surrender” as anti-ICE demonstrations continue across the state.
In a social media post, Miller wrote: “Only federal officers are upholding the law.”
He then added: “Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”
Miller’s comments came in response to New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who wrote earlier Sunday that “local cops have gone AWOL.”
The remark follows Miller’s earlier description of the Minnesota anti-ICE protests as “an insurgency,” as Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military against U.S. citizens in the state.
Appearing on The Charlie Kirk Show on Thursday, Miller said: “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. They are describing the federal government as an occupying force. Just think about that for a second.”
