Marc Thiessen on fatal border patrol shooting: Local Dems “are to blame for all of this” and are “assuming the worst of our patriotic ICE agents”
On Fox, Washington Post's Mark Thiessen immediately jumps to blame Dem politicians: “I think Minneapolis, and the governor, and the mayor are to blame for all of this”
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From the January 24, 2026, edition of Fox News' Saturday in America
MARC THIESSEN (CONTRIBUTOR): First of all, I haven't seen the statement, but you reported that Governor Walz has condemned the shooting. So, already we've got the Democrats in Minneapolis who are assuming the worst of our patriotic ICE agents. I think Minneapolis, and the governor, and the mayor are to blame for all of this. Because they're doing two things that are endangering both illegal migrants and the protesters. First of all, the sanctuary city policies are what the reason for all these raids. Because if they were just co-opt -- the Trump administration, Tom Homan has said they want to target illegal migrants with criminal records: either charged with crimes, or convicted of crimes, or have deportation orders. They are not cooperating with ICE in getting rid of those people, as a result they have to carry out these large scale raids in order to find them. While they're finding them, they're collateral arrests of people who don't have criminal records, because if they find someone who is here illegally, they're going to take them and they're going to deport them.
So, they're causing the need for these raids to begin with by their sanctuary policies and then the protesters are protesting in response to those raids, and they're pouring fuel on the fire by accusing ICE of doing terrible things, which means somebody's going to get upset and bring a gun to one of these protests, and they're going to get shot. So they're endangering the protesters with their rhetoric about ICE and by encouraging them to go out and protest.