Stephen Miller

White House Might Ask For Foreign Visitors' Social Media Accounts

... before allowing them to enter the United States, according to a report. Policy director Stephen Miller spoke to officials from multiple departments, including Customs and Border Patrol, to tell them that the President is committed to enforcing his new executive order on immigration, despite the chaos that has ensued, CNN reports. Miller allegedly said that Trump administration officials are considering asking foreign visitors to reveal their social media profiles, websites they visit and to disclose their cell phone contacts. He reportedly said that those who refuse could be denied entry into the United States. 16 state attorney generals vow to fight Trump's travel bans. Miller allegedly referred to the social media posts made by San Bernardino terrorist Tashfeen Malik, who expressed extremist views in private Facebook posts before the December 2015 attack. White House officials are discussing the ...

White House Divided On Protecting Dreamers

... as “dreamers.”. The split is between Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, who both have a more conservative stance on immigration, and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, according to the report. Bannon is Trump’s chief strategist, while Miller serves as his policy adviser. Trump has signaled he may not overturn DACA, telling  ABC News  in an interview this week that dreamers “shouldn’t be very worried” and that a policy addressing the issue would come soon. “They shouldn't be very worried. They are here illegally. They shouldn't be very worried. I do have a big heart. We're going to take care of everybody,” he said in the interview. “Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried. We'll be coming out with policy on that over the next period of four weeks,” he added. Trump on Wednesday  signed  two ...

Trump Ban Fast Start Was For National Security

... Homeland Security's determination that it would not apply to people holding green cards, which allows them lawful permanent residence, reports CNN. The White House though, with an inner circle led by Miller and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, overruled DHS overnight, saying that the decision to allow entry would be allowed on a case-by-case basis. "One hundred and seventy people applied for green card waivers overseas," said Miller. "Be clear, these are people who already have green cards, not people applying for new green cards. That policy has been consistent from the beginning.". Miller blamed the media for showing confusion, but "the reality is that internally we have honored every request for admission for individuals who have green cards from overseas.". There were 109 people already traveling when Trump's order was issued, said Miller, and it was important to roll out the new rules quickly. "If you announce in five days or ten days these countries will become travel restricted you could have enormous, unintended consequences similarly," Miller ...

What Is Stephen Miller’s Job, Anyway

... onto the national stage was becoming apparent well before Trump’s upset win opened up all sorts of vistas for the young man, who during the campaign enjoyed warming up crowds for the boss. He grins at the podium, he savors the crowd’s reactions, even if they periodically boo him for not turning the stage over to Trump fast enough. “All the anger right underneath the surface just waiting to come through, about what I don’t know,” says a former staffer with the Republican leadership on the Hill. “I’ve seen the videos of him getting the crowd fired up. People that knew him when he was on the Hill, I don’t know how to describe the reactions people had to the videos of him. Maybe creeped out a little bit? Like, what’s going to happen when this guy gets the power?” He pauses as a thought dawns on him. “Oh my God,” he says. “He’s going to find out that I spoke with you and I’m going to end ...

5 Ways Stephen Miller Grew Up To Be Trump’s Inauguration Speechwriter

... on standing and placing his hand on his heart during the pledge of allegiance, ended up alongside a politician like Trump. The Los Angeles Times went back to Miller’s high school, where being an ultra conservative teenager in the otherwise liberal enclave taught him what it means to be an outsider. Here are some of these school years intersections that may have shaped the views of Trump’s top adviser. No one liked his politics — or him. Described as “the student body’s best-known and least-liked conservative activist,” Miller managed to get under the skin of many of his classmates and teachers. It wasn’t only for his tennis shorts and polo shirt attire, but rather Miller’s crusade against what he identified as a destructive culture of political correctness, long before his future boss would ever turn this argument into a political rallying call. “This guy is 17 years old, and it’s like listening to someone who’s 70 years old —  in the 1930 s,” said Oscar de la Torre who was a counselor at Santa Monica High School. Daniel J. Solomon December 27, 2016. No habla Espanol por favor. He took special ...

From Sessions' Aide To Trump's Inner Circle

... and even my fellow students. Their resistance only strengthened my resolve.". Miller continued his conservative advocacy at Duke, when he gained attention for defending the white lacrosse players accused of raping a black stripper (the players were ultimately exonerated) at a time when public opinion was against them. His position led to appearances on cable news, further raising his profile. "Three of our fellow students are being put on trial not because of evidence but because of a DA's incompetence and malice," he wrote in the university's student paper. "Sadly, many in the community have shown that they are not fair minded but would rather hunt for witches than search for justice.". Miller's writings were one of the main factors in Boyd hiring him. "I focused on his material he had written for the other two members of the House. I was very impressed he had a column in college and he was a very good ...

How A Liberal Santa Monica High School Produced A Top Trump Advisor And Speechwriter

... of that rhetoric was echoed in the Trump campaign. “That Stephen Miller would take the playbook he used to provoke Santa Monica High School students and turn into becoming one of the most powerful people in the country, I think that’s something nobody saw coming,” Rosmarin said. Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village), who was the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s board president at the time, remembered Miller showing up at events in coat and tie — “unlike any other student” — to argue against special treatment for immigrants and others. “He had very conservative views — the exact opposite of what we were trying to accomplish in the school district,” she said. The more opposition he faced, the more Miller dug in. “He was very brave at the time, when you consider the pressures on him,” said Horowitz, who introduced Miller to Sessions. Miller’s willingness to offend provided an easy punchline for the student paper. For the annual satire issue, the staff crafted a fake letter to the editor from him celebrating the cancellation of club day, when Latinos and other student groups sold ethnic foods. It mockingly said he preferred white bread and ...

Trump's Immigration Fiasco Might Be More Premeditated Than We Think

... they produced.an amateurish, politically self-immolating effort that humiliated the country, provoked international retaliation, and failed to withstand the obvious federal court challenge on its very first day. Given the despicable nature of this effort, I’m happy it has become a political fiasco. It also makes me wonder how the Trump administration will execute the basic functions of government. This astonishing failure reflects our new President’s contempt for the basic craft of government. This sure seems to be the case. For the barely believable story of just how incompetent the whole exercise was, check out this CNN story. It will leave your jaw on the floor. And yet, there's also one tidbit that makes me wonder if the chaos attending the rollout was quite as unintended as we think. Friday night, DHS arrived at the legal interpretation that the executive order restrictions applying to seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, ...

Travel Ban Is The Clearest Sign Yet Of Trump Advisors' Intent To Reshape The Country

... changes to immigration policy. Instead, Homeland Security officials were given little time to review the order before it was made public. On one of the order’s most controversial and confusing parts, the status of permanent residents, Bannon and Miller at one point overruled an interpretation by Homeland Security officials in favor of a more limited policy that blocked green card holders until they apply for a waiver from the ban, the officials said. Protesters rally against President Trump's new immigration order. After a weekend of conflicting instructions to border officials at airports, the administration said late Sunday that green card holders would not be affected by Trump’s order. About 170 permanent residents from the banned countries had applied for waivers to enter by Sunday afternoon, and all had been granted, a senior administration official said. After chaotic scenes at airport terminals across the country and multiple court orders limiting Trump’s directives, the White House ...