“Whether it is John Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen or whoever comes next, Trump’s real DHS Secretary has always been Stephen Miller,' United We Dream Advocacy Director Sanaa Abrar said.
After Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned from her role on Sunday, speculation has swirled around who could become her permanent replacement, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan stepping in as acting DHS chief for now.
A report from The Wall Street Journal adds further fuel to that assertion, with the newspaper citing an unnamed administration official and reporting on Monday that Trump recently told Miller directly that he is"in charge" of the government's immigration policy. The 33-year-old was the mastermind behind the president's initial travel ban against Muslim-majority countries, which also saw the U.S. refugee program suspended indefinitely.
The Trump adviser and speechwriter has also been named as the main obstacle in the way of making any immigration deal between Republicans and Democrats possible, with GOP Senator Lindsey Graham once complaining that"every time we have a proposal, it is only yanked back by staff members." Noting that their ancestor, Wolf-Leib Glosser, had been forced to flee the village of Antopol, in what is now Belarus, to America in search of safety from"violent anti-Jewish pogroms," Glosser said that if his nephew's "ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out."
She also said that Democrats in the 2020 presidential race should also be making efforts to"show the American people that they will stop this fascist creep into the civil liberties of all Americans and stop ICE and CBP's attacks on immigrants."
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