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‘Always whispering devilish ideas in the king’s ear’: Gen. Milley had a low opinion of Stephen Miller, new book says

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Gen. Mark Milley appears to not have been a fan of former Trump White House advisor Stephen Miller and thought of him as “a Rasputin character, always whispering devilish ideas in the king’s ear,” according to an excerpt from a new book documenting Trump’s last days in office. 

According to Business Insider, the highlighted excerpt comes from the new book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.”Authored by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker, the book sheds light on some of Milley’s concerns, and based on the writers’ reporting, the top-ranking general had shared his concerns about Miller with his aides.

Per the publication:

“Milley likened Miller to the villainous Grigori Rasputin, an influential Russian political figure also called the “Mad Monk,” who held significant influence over the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family. The self-professed holy man was later murdered by aristocrats.” Continue reading.

U.S. to begin reuniting migrant families separated under ‘cruel’ Trump policy, DHS secretary says

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Four migrant parents who were separated from their children at the U.S. border by the Trump administration and sent home alone will be allowed to return to the United States this week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Monday.

The reunions will start a process expected to stretch on for months and possibly years as separated parents are ferried back to the United States from around the world.

More than 1,000 families remain separated, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The parents were deported alone, mostly to Central America, in 2017 or 2018. Their children have since grown up with relatives or other guardians across the United States. Continue reading.

Stephen Miller’s attack on Biden’s immigration policy

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“Under normal administrations, whether it was the Obama administration, the Trump administration, the Bush administration, the Clinton administration, if a criminal alien was arrested by a local sheriff’s department, a police department, state troopers, state police, highway patrol, they were then flagged by ICE. Something called a detainer was issued. And when that person was released, whether they were bonded out by a judge, whether they were put on their own recognizance pending trial, or whether they completed the prison sentence, they were placed into ICE custody. … The Biden administration has stopped doing that in the vast majority of cases. So, all of those criminal offenders are now being released back into the U.S. population, back into your communities, back into your schools, back near the places where you live. The result of that is going to be massive amounts of recidivism. Innocent people are going to get hurt. Innocent people are going to get killed. Innocent people are going to suffer irreparable damage as a result of that decision.”

— Stephen Miller, adviser to former president Donald Trump, in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News, April 18, 2021

After four years in the White House as Trump’s immigration adviser, Miller is now on the outside looking in as President Biden winds down many of his policies.

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Stephen Miller Pursues White Nationalist Agenda With State Lawsuits

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Stephen Miller, a white nationalist and senior aide in the Trump White House, is working behind the scenes through his organization America First Legal to assist Republican attorneys general who are suing the Biden administration over immigration issues.

Miller was responsible for designing some of the Trump administration’s key policies targeting immigrants, including the separation of immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border and the ban on travelers from Muslim-majority countries entering the United States.

Appearing on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, Miller disclosed his group’s work behind the scenes. Continue reading.

Stephen Miller launches legal group to block Biden agenda in court

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Former Trump White House senior adviser Stephen Miller has formed a new legal group to challenge the Biden administration’s policies through lawsuits, Politico first reported.

Why it matters: Miller told the Wall Street Journal Wednesday that any Biden policy that the group, America First Legal, “believes to be illegal” would be “fair game” for litigation, setting up an expansive battlefield for trying to maintain Trump-era policies.

The big picture: America Legal First will work with state attorneys general and Republican lawyers around the country to file and assist with conservative lawsuits against Biden policies, per the WSJ. Continue reading.

Stephen Miller is mercilessly mocked after tweeting awkward photo of ‘terrific meeting with President Trump!’

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Former top Trump White House aide Stephen Millertweeted a photo of himself with the former President at Mar-a-Lago and declared, “Just had a terrific meeting with President Trump!”

The comments about Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office, and both men’s hate-filled attacks on the United States, were crushing – and some urged room-rating Twitter accounts to take this one on. Others mocked the former president for trying to hide a Coke bottle amid the GOP’s supposed boycott of the soda brand after it spoke out against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s voter suppression law. Some mentioned Miller’s affinity for white nationalism, or worse. Continue reading.

On Fox, Stephen Miller Falsely Claims Migrant Kids Were ‘Humanely Returned’ To Families

Former Trump administration senior adviser Stephen Miller appeared Thursday morning on Fox & Friends, to attack President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. During the interview, Miller falsely claimed that the Trump administration maintained a practice of “safely and humanely” returning unaccompanied minor immigrants to their families.

In fact, the practices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials during the Trump administration were notorious for their dysfunctional treatment of unaccompanied minors. A ProPublicareport last year titled “The Trump Administration Is Rushing Deportations of Migrant Children During Coronavirus” included young children who had “a parent in the U.S. ready to receive them, and no one in their home country to care for them,” and teenagers with dangerous family situations waiting for them back home.

The New York Times also documented that the administration had “deported hundreds of migrant children alone — in some cases, without notifying their families,” which also included other relatives in the United States, and that “others have been pushed back into Mexico, where thousands of migrants are living in filthy tent camps and overrun shelters.” The Times also reported the Trump administration had ordered the expulsion of minors who still had pending asylum appeals. Congressional Democrats had charged that the administration’s practices violated the existing federal law for the treatment of unaccompanied children, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Continue reading.

Trump aide banned from Justice after trying to get case info

WASHINGTON — The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press.

Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said.

Stirrup is accused of approaching staffers in the department demanding they give her information about investigations, including election fraud matters, the people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. Continue reading.

ICE expelled group of children under Stephen Miller policy just minutes after judge blocked it

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A federal judge’s ruling earlier this month blocking the Stephen Miller-led public health policy that the Trump administration has used to quickly kick out children should have immediately stopped the expulsion of a group of 33 kids who sat on a flight bound for Central America that same day. Should have. Instead, officials continued on with the flight.

BuzzFeed News reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims that agents didn’t know about the ruling, which came shortly before the flight took off for Guatemala. It’s hard to believe that ICE wasn’t aware of an impactful decision stopping a policy that’s already expelled children at least 13,000 times, or that a ruling was coming. I guess they don’t carry phones or walkie talkies. It’s also hard to believe ICE when it has a history of lying to both the courts and us.

ICE claims that agents became aware of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s ruling only after they’d landed in Guatemala, but instead of keeping these children in custody and turning right back around for the U.S., they left them, BuzzFeed News continues. “It is unconscionable that they are leaving the kids there and that they did not immediately bring them back,” Migration Policy Institute analyst Sarah Pierce said in the report. Continue reading.

Trump adviser Stephen Miller reveals aggressive second-term immigration agenda

The immigration hardliner says the president would fight to limit asylum, target “sanctuary cities,” expand the “travel ban” and cut work visas.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump‘s senior adviser Stephen Miller has fleshed out plans to rev up Trump’s restrictive immigration agenda if he wins re-election next week, offering a stark contrast to the platform of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

In a 30-minute phone interview Thursday with NBC News, Miller outlined four major priorities: limiting asylum grants, punishing and outlawing “sanctuary cities,” expanding the so-called travel ban with tougher screening for visa applicants and slapping new limits on work visas.

The objective, he said, is “raising and enhancing the standard for entry” to the United States. Continue reading.