''Trump's psyche': The aide driving president's most controversial policies' [View all]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8rl71n4r3o
My words: Drag this guy's ass before Congress. Now, would be good.
Note: Bold is mine.
'For years Stephen Miller has been a conservative firebrand in Donald Trump's political orbit. Now, he has become a lightning rod....And over the last few weeks, Miller has found himself in unfamiliar territory - a behind-the-scenes operator suddenly in the national spotlight, whose words and actions are being scrutinised...
According to the Washington Examiner, Miller at one meeting "eviscerated" federal immigration officials for not doing enough to detain undocumented migrants across the US. Since then, the administration has ramped up enforcement in a growing list of major American cities, including Washington DC, Charlotte, Chicago and, most recently, Minneapolis....
Miller is the architect of this mass deportation policy, said Bryan Lanza, a conservative strategist who worked on Trump's 2016 and 2024 presidential campaigns. "We'll know in November whether he's to blame for it. The voters, at the end of the day, can be very unforgiving."...
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Axios recently, in part as a defence of criticism that she was the driving force behind the administration's forceful immigration enforcement actions.