On Thursday’s broadcast of “Special Report,” FOX News contributor and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer told anchor Bret Baier the people protesting the presence of ICE in Minneapolis genuinely do not want illegal immigrants to have to leave because “they want them to get away with it.”

BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: To that point, Ari, the president putting out that Truth Social today saying, if the corrupt politicians in Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great state. Basically, a state opposing execution of U.S. law or impedes the course of justice, U.S. military could go in, obviously a lot of people raising eyebrows about that. ARI FLEISCHER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, the Insurrection Act is aimed at, quote, civil disobedience, unquote. It goes on to armed conflict as well, but it includes civil disobedience. Not peaceful protest, but civil disobedience. And when you have the governor of Minnesota use the words atrocities, that ICE is committing atrocities, Governor Walz’s word, when he says it’s federal occupation of Minnesota, his word, occupation, urging Minnesotans to take to the streets to, quote, bank evidence for future prosecutions, Governor Walz’s words, he is not seeking to calm things down. He is riling things up. And I think you have to ask what the root reason is why. And it’s because after the Biden years in which tens of millions of people came in illegally across the border with the willingness and the happiness of Democratic officials, now they want them to stay. They do not want people who came here illegally to have to leave in compliance with the law. They want them to get away with it. And that’s what’s driving their behavior.

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