Stephen Miller Is Force Behind Separation Policy

[RandySF]

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind President Trump’s decision to enforce the family separation policy at U.S. borders, the New York Times reports.

Unlike Trump, who has claimed to hate the practice, Miller said it was a “simple decision.”

Saim Miller: “No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement… The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/17/stephen-miller-is-force-behind-separation-policy/

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Slate: Trump Aide Stephen Miller on Separating Children at Border: "It Was a Simple Decision"

The White House seems to be divided amid the increasing public outrage over separating children from their guardians at the border, reports the New York Times. Although the White House had hinted that it would go down that path last year, President Donald Trump ended up backtracking. Like his predecessors, the idea of ripping crying children from the arms of their parents simply seemed too cruel, nevermind politically dangerous. But some in the administration, most notably senior policy adviser Stephen Miller continued to push the idea. Now Miller has emerged as one of the staunch defenders of the controversial move.

“No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement,” Miller told the Times in an interview. “It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.”

As the outrage grows, so do the divisions within the White House, including from Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary. She has clashed so frequently with Trump over the issue that she has come close to resigning. And outside the administration, the criticism is fierce. “This is not a zero tolerance policy, this is a zero humanity policy, and we can’t let it go on,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat of Oregon, said. In a grim Twitter post, former National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden wrote, “Other governments have separated mothers and children.” The message was accompanied by a photo of Auschwitz.


More: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/stephen-miller-on-separating-children-at-border-it-was-a-simple-decision.html

[SunSeeker]

2. Un no, Trump does not "hate the policy." He would end it overnight if he did.

Looks like Trump decided to throw Stephen Miller under the bus, after blaming Democrats for the policy hasn't taken the heat off.

[JI7]

4. exactly, yeah, we know miller and kelly are bigots that would support this but Trump

still makes final decision .

[Laffy Kat]

3. Big surprise.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Add John Kelly to that accusation.

They BOTH want this policy.

Trump couldn't care less. He only wants what plays to his base. The actually policy doesn't mean shit to him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/family-separation-trump.html

[ProudLib72]

7. As unpopular as this decision is turning out to be

Miller could soon be sacrificed to appease the hordes. Here's hoping.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. It's hard to believe that the guy is Jewish, yet so out of touch with his heritage.

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I bet growing up, he was constantly citing the abuse of Jews to his Christian classmates.

Then some transformation occurred within him.

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