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Tue Jun 3, 2025, 01:07 AM Tuesday

ICE Officials Don't Know Who to Arrest, Thanks to Stephen Miller

Source: The New Republic

ICE Officials Don’t Know Who to Arrest, Thanks to Stephen Miller

Edith Olmsted
Mon, June 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM EDT 2 min read

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was enraged to hear that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had been focusing on arresting only criminals, The Washington Examiner reported Monday.

Last week, 25 field directors from ICE’s Enforcement Removal Operations, as well as 25 special agents from Homeland Security Investigations, were called to Washington for a meeting. Officials told the Examiner that the president’s ghoulish immigration czar wasn’t happy.

“Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone,” said one official. “‘You guys aren’t doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders.’ He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down.”

The official told the conservative outlet that Miller didn’t want ICE to narrow its field to just undocumented immigrants with criminal records. “Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. ‘Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?’” the official recalled.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-officials-don-t-know-192934472.html

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