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Senior Justice Department advisor Alina Habba joins \u2018Fox & Friends\u2019 to discuss how the DOJ will use civil-rights statutes to prosecute those who intimidate worshipers, attack officers or fund violent protests amid Minnesota unrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Department of Justice (DOJ) senior advisor\u00a0Alina Habba\u00a0has pledged to investigate \u201ceverybody\u201d tied to anti-ICE protests in Minnesota after a mob targeted a church in St. Paul on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The department launched an investigation after dozens of agitators burst into the\u00a0Cities Church sanctuary\u00a0during a service, attendees of the church told Fox News Digital. The mob stormed the building believing that one of the pastors was the acting director of ICE\u2019s St. Paul field office.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>The FACE Act is a long-standing federal statute that prohibits force, threats, obstruction, any kind of interference with a religious place of worship. And it carries criminal penalties and violations,\u201d Habba said Monday on\u00a0\u201cFox & Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alina Habba said the FACE Act is \u201ca long-standing federal statute that prohibits force, threats, obstruction, any kind of interference with a religious place of worship.\u201d (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

FORMER ICE OFFICIAL ARGUES WHAT IS \u2018REALLY OUTRAGEOUS\u2019 ABOUT MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY\u2019S COMMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked whether\u00a0the DOJ\u00a0would be investigating the protesters or the mayor and governor, Habba said \u201ceverybody\u201d would be subject to the probe, pointing to the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994.<\/p>\n

The FACE Act prohibits the use or threat of force and physical obstruction to interfere with a person seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services or to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a\u00a0place of religious worship, according to the DOJ website.<\/p>\n

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Community members confront federal agents after an immigration raid that resulted in detentions and followed the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 13, 2026.\u00a0(Tim Evans\/Reuters)<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

WHAT WOULD TRUMP\u2019S USE OF THE INSURRECTION ACT LOOK LIKE IN MINNESOTA?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Habba said Attorney General\u00a0Pam Bondi\u00a0would \u201ccome down hard on anybody who tries to impede or intimidate somebody in a place of worship or a police officer or an ICE officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just not going to happen in this administration, and Pam is making that very clear,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

She also said the DOJ will look into whether these protests are being paid for by outside actors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are funding mass protests, if you are having protests that are not righteous protests \u2014 there are\u00a0First Amendment rights\u00a0that we respect \u2014 but that are putting people in risk, not allowing people to go to church, this Department of Justice will come down on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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