Stephen Miller, a key figure in the Trump administration, is focused on ramping up deportations of immigrants in the United States. This includes instructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to conduct mass arrests, targeting locations such as Home Depots and 7-Elevens. His actions, which have led to protests, represent an escalatory tactic to reassert control amid dissent. Miller views these measures as a means to combat the multiculturalism he believes threatens the fabric of American society, using federal resources to confront protests with overwhelming force, emphasizing his radical approach to immigration policy.
Miller has his hand in a lot of policy pots. But the reason he gets up every morning is to deport immigrants, and to do it as rapidly as possible.
Instead of developing target lists, Miller said, ICE officials should just target Home Depots or 7-Elevens and sweep up who they could.
But for Miller, this isn't about keeping the peace. He wants to use ICE and whatever other enforcement authorities he can get control of—to rid the country of the multiculturalism he believes is tearing it apart.
The administration's move is escalatory by design, pitting a disproportionate amount of armor and muscle against protests that hardly constitute a war zone.
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