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BumRushDaShow

(154,274 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:35 AM Wednesday

Stephen Miller meeting with ICE officials was the spark for LA protests and National Guard call-up: report

Source: The Independent

Tuesday 10 June 2025 17:43 EDT


White House aide Stephen Miller has repeatedly branded the Los Angeles protests an “insurrection” after fierce backlash to immigration raids. California’s leadership is now “siding with insurrectionist mobs,” and Democratic officials are “in open rebellion” against the government, according to Miller.

But the far-right architect of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda appears to have himself lit the fuse, after reportedly rallying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens.” Late last month, Miller pressed ICE officials to ramp up arrests after following short of the president’s ambitions for record-breaking daily deportations, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Federal law enforcement officers needed to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” Miller told top ICE officials, according to WSJ, citing people familiar with the meeting. Rather than develop a list of targets for arrest, Miller told agents to raid Home Depot parking lots and 7-Eleven convenience stores, the newspaper reported.

Miller “eviscerated everyone,” according to recent reporting from The Washington Examiner. “‘You guys aren’t doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders,’” Miller reportedly said. “He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down,” an official told the outlet. Miller also allegedly bet that he and a handful of agents could arrest 30 people in the streets of Washington, D.C. “Who here thinks they can do it?” Miller reportedly said.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-los-angeles-protests-ice-b2767509.html

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Stephen Miller meeting with ICE officials was the spark for LA protests and National Guard call-up: report (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP
I can't even find an adequate word to describe Stephen Miller. democrank Wednesday #1
He has a long history in the white nationalist movement. The fact that he's been elevated to the position he now has is Karasu Wednesday #2
he's doing what RFK Jr is doing Skittles Wednesday #4
THIS orangecrush Wednesday #10
is it not ironic DonCoquixote Wednesday #7
How about.... MarcoZandrini Wednesday #5
Notsee Clouds Passing Wednesday #11
Miller is pure gestapo Skittles Wednesday #3
so he lit a fire under their ass barbtries Wednesday #6
Stephen Miller has serious Blue_Roses Wednesday #8
An asshole with mental problems. mdbl Wednesday #9

democrank

(11,528 posts)
1. I can't even find an adequate word to describe Stephen Miller.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 05:54 AM
Wednesday

How can a human being consistently spew so much hatred? He’s so evil.

Karasu

(1,342 posts)
2. He has a long history in the white nationalist movement. The fact that he's been elevated to the position he now has is
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 06:03 AM
Wednesday

ridiculous. The man is unhinged.

DonCoquixote

(13,886 posts)
7. is it not ironic
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:43 AM
Wednesday

That someone whose Jewish ancestors fled to America to escape Nazis is cozy with white nationalists? Hey Steve here's a new flash, after they kill the people you hate, they WILL come for you

barbtries

(30,471 posts)
6. so he lit a fire under their ass
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 07:41 AM
Wednesday

and they went out and terrorized LA. Maybe not enough dead bodies to suit him, but just enough to get the propaganda turned on super high. the words he's been spewing are completely over the top and they're Anti American lies.

pure slime. i shudder when i look at him and have a tendency to yell fuck you at the computer whenever i hear him speak his lies.

Blue_Roses

(13,732 posts)
8. Stephen Miller has serious
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:22 AM
Wednesday

mental problems, especially when it comes to immigration. He's at the root of alot of this.

mdbl

(6,662 posts)
9. An asshole with mental problems.
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:28 PM
Wednesday

Seems like a syndrome with most of the White house cabinet. Could it be a reflection of the asshole in the oval office?

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