Overview
- On Fox News, Miller said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other officials who impede ICE operations could be arrested, citing offenses from obstruction to seditious conspiracy depending on conduct.
- He asserted that ICE officers have federal immunity while performing their duties, a claim legal commentators said misstates limited, context‑dependent protections.
- Miller said the Justice Department would pursue officials who cross into obstruction or conspiracy, though no arrests or new indictments of state leaders have been reported.
- The remarks follow heightened federal activity in the Chicago area, including a contested National Guard push and an ongoing ICE operation that Illinois and Chicago are fighting in court.
- Politicians, lawyers, and former officials denounced the threats, arguing that criminalizing state or local resistance to federal raids overreaches executive authority.