Stephen Miller, the White House point person on immigration, is pursuing a strategy that is bedeviling his opponents and could provoke a constitutional crisis, Nick Miroff and Jonathan Lemire write: theatln.tc/L4U6JqzY
Miller has returned to the White House stronger and more determined than ever to plow through legal constraints. During Donald Trump’s first term, Miller tried to deter migration with a series of moves implemented by trial and error, gradually. This time, “he has unleashed an everything-at-once policy storm,” Miroff and Lemire write. “Drawing on policy ideas worked up in conservative think tanks during the four years between Trump’s terms, Miller’s plan has been to fire off so many different proposals that some inevitably find a friendly court ruling, three administration officials told us.”
“Trump, Miller, and their allies have spent years attempting to convince the public that illegal immigration is an existential threat,” Miroff and Lemire write. “The administration is systematically asserting wartime authorities predicated on the notion that the United States is facing a foreign invasion that justifies extraordinary powers that go well beyond those that presidents have typically employed.”
“In the past two months, the administration has attempted to end birthright citizenship, declared an invasion at the southern border, suspended asylum processing, restored the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, and deployed the U.S. military to guard the border and send deportees to Guantánamo Bay,” Miroff and Lemire continue. “Trump has enlisted nearly every federal law-enforcement agency to help with his mass-deportation campaign, a mobilization akin to a wartime effort … The relentless pace is a direct result of Miller’s plan to grind down opponents and break institutional resistance.”
“The administration’s court-defying use of the Alien Enemies Act this past weekend to send hundreds of deportees to a prison in El Salvador—including some after a district-court judge explicitly told the government not to—was his most brazen gambit yet,” Miroff and Lemire write.
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Stephen Miller, the White House point person on immigration, is pursuing a strategy that is bedeviling his opponents and could provoke a constitutional crisis, Nick Miroff and Jonathan Lemire write: theatln.tc/L4U6JqzY
Miller has returned to the White House stronger and more determined than ever to plow through legal constraints. During Donald Trump’s first term, Miller tried to deter migration with a series of moves implemented by trial and error, gradually. This time, “he has unleashed an everything-at-once policy storm,” Miroff and Lemire write. “Drawing on policy ideas worked up in conservative think tanks during the four years between Trump’s terms, Miller’s plan has been to fire off so many different proposals that some inevitably find a friendly court ruling, three administration officials told us.”
“Trump, Miller, and their allies have spent years attempting to convince the public that illegal immigration is an existential threat,” Miroff and Lemire write. “The administration is systematically asserting wartime authorities predicated on the notion that the United States is facing a foreign invasion that justifies extraordinary powers that go well beyond those that presidents have typically employed.”
“In the past two months, the administration has attempted to end birthright citizenship, declared an invasion at the southern border, suspended asylum processing, restored the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, and deployed the U.S. military to guard the border and send deportees to Guantánamo Bay,” Miroff and Lemire continue. “Trump has enlisted nearly every federal law-enforcement agency to help with his mass-deportation campaign, a mobilization akin to a wartime effort … The relentless pace is a direct result of Miller’s plan to grind down opponents and break institutional resistance.”
“The administration’s court-defying use of the Alien Enemies Act this past weekend to send hundreds of deportees to a prison in El Salvador—including some after a district-court judge explicitly told the government not to—was his most brazen gambit yet,” Miroff and Lemire write.
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