Stephen Miller is one of President Trump’s longest-serving and most influential aides, and the architect of many of the president’s most aggressive border and immigration policies. His rise to White House chief of staff elevates a hard-line policy adviser to a position of pre-eminent power and influence in Mr. An unabashed champion of Mr.
Trump and his agenda in high-profile media appearances, Mr. Miller rose to become a public face of the Trump administration — and a perennial target of critics of Mr. Trump, who have highlighted his right-wing views.
Trump did not explain his decision to fire Susie Wiles, his current chief of staff, and replace her with Mr. Miller, noting only that “Stephen’s been with me from the beginning” and was one of his most trusted advisers. Miller, 41, has advised Mr.
Trump for nearly a decade, and has either authored or significantly contributed to many of the president’s most high-profile moves. Those include separation of migrant families at the border; the 2017 Muslim travel ban; directing the government to stifle critics of Mr. Trump; the ending of nearly all U.S. refugee programs; the widespread pressure campaign against American universities; extrajudicial boat strikes that have killed hundreds; purges of officials deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr.
Miller’s most wide-reaching influence can be seen in Mr. Trump’s mass deportation campaign, which Mr. Miller helped set in motion militarized operations on the streets of American cities, pitting masked, heavily armed immigration agents against residents of cities like Minneapolis and Chicago. 54 Democrats Dem.
Republicans Rep. 50 44253 Democrats Dem. Republicans Rep. 218 162 Many of those raids have targeted immigrant communities that Mr. Trump has denigrated, including Somalis.
Extract — continue reading at the source.
