Stunning reporting on Stephen Miller's role in ordering ICE agents to ramp up arrests and raids - Deadline - MSNBC

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Elizabeth Findell, Wall Street Journal National Reporter, joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to discuss her reporting which details the role that Senior Trump Advisor Stephen Miller has played in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown which has included a sudden ramp of arrests and immigration raids, which was a cause for the mass protests over the weekend in Los Angeles. - Aired on 06/10/2025.

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1. Stephen Miller Erupts in Fury Over Low Arrests--and Hands Dems a Weapon

Stephen Miller has imposed a quota on arrests of non-white people. Because of this quota, people like high school students on the way to volleyball practice are being arrested and detained.

Hitting Miller’s new deportation quotas could mean fewer resources to fight child trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes. Do Americans really want that?

https://newrepublic.com/article/196154/stephen-miller-erupts-fury-low-arrests-and-hands-dems-weapon

NBC News reports that top Trump adviser Stephen Miller recently erupted in anger over what he sees as woefully lagging deportation numbers, privately threatening to fire senior Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials over it. He demanded the detention of 3,000 migrants each day, sources told NBC.

It’s not surprising that the failure to impose maximal cruelty and suffering on the vulnerable would infuriate a dime-store fascist like Miller. What’s striking, though, is that this has prompted the administration to devote “more than 5,000 personnel from across federal law enforcement agencies” to arresting undocumented immigrants, per NBC.

This includes 1,800 agents from Homeland Security Investigations, which usually probes crimes that don’t involve noncriminal migrants, NBC reports. It also includes 2,000 employees from law enforcement agencies at the Justice Department, like the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

This is already hindering other crime fighting. “Prosecutors say cases without immigration components have stalled or are moving more slowly,” reports NBC, adding that federal law enforcement officials say the “increased focus on cases with an immigration angle is pulling resources from other law enforcement priorities.”.....

It is very likely that majorities would find those priorities deeply demented. As Fleischaker, the former ICE official, told me: “The idea that immigration enforcement is the most significant national security and public safety concern that we as a country face is deeply unserious.”

Which gives Democrats a strong case to make: Trump’s twisted ideological obsession with deporting moms—and other unauthorized immigrants who have committed no serious crimes—is detracting from the fight against transnational gangs, drug trafficking, and child exploitation.

To Trump and Miller, all those unauthorized immigrant moms really do constitute a national emergency. But there’s no way majorities agree with this. Democrats: Miller’s private outbursts reveal a new kind of Achilles’ heel on this issue—time to seize on it, and prosecute the case accordingly.

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3. Yikes! Thanks!

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2. A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement

At Stephen Miller's orders, ICE and Homeland Security are pursing quotas and that quota system is hurting law enforcement
Members of other agencies are getting detailed to assist ICE, while Justice Department personnel shift to immigration-focused teams and prioritize immigration-related cases.

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NEW: A sweeping new ICE operation shows how President Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-06-04T12:35:08Z

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ice-operation-trump-focus-immigration-reshape-federal-law-enforcement-rcna193494

WASHINGTON — In mid-May, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, frustrated over what he saw as numbers of arrests and deportations of unauthorized immigrants that were too low, berated and threatened to fire senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials if they did not begin detaining 3,000 migrants a day, according to two sources who spoke to attendees.

Miller also threatened to fire leaders of field offices posting the bottom 10% of arrest numbers monthly, the two sources said.....

It is the latest example of how President Donald Trump’s push for mass deportations is reshaping federal law enforcement as officials shift resources toward immigration-related cases — including nonviolent administrative offenses — leaving less time and attention for other types of criminal investigations.

The plan calls for using 3,000 ICE agents, including 1,800 from Homeland Security Investigations, which generally investigates transnational crimes and is not typically involved in arresting noncriminal immigrants; 2,000 Justice Department employees from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration; and 500 employees from Customs and Border Protection. It also includes 250 IRS agents, some of whom may be used to provide information on the whereabouts of immigrants using tax information, while others would have the authority to make arrests, according to the operation plan.

The Department of Homeland Security has also requested the use of 21,000 National Guard members to provide support in ICE operations, according to two additional sources familiar with the request, though that number has yet to be approved by the Defense Department or by governors who would be deploying their state’s units, multiple sources cautioned.Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, responding to the Miller meeting, said, “Keeping President Trump’s promise to deport illegal aliens is something the Administration takes seriously. We are committed to aggressively and efficiently removing illegal aliens from the United States, and ensuring our law enforcement officers have the resources necessary to do so. The safety of the American people depends upon it.”.....

Still, federal law enforcement officials who spoke to NBC News said the increased focus on cases with an immigration angle is pulling resources from other law enforcement priorities.

“There is such a priority on making immigration arrests that it takes longer to get answers on anything else. Something that used to be resolved in a matter of days now takes weeks,” a law enforcement official said.

The shift in resources affects not only the type of cases taken but also the type of personnel involved in immigration raids. The FBI is almost always the agency leading the charge in joint investigations, but it has traditionally avoided getting involved in enforcement operations that involve only immigration enforcement, current and former officials confirmed......

Meanwhile, it is unclear whether or when the shifting resources and reorganization will result in the Trump administration’s hitting its desired deportation numbers, like the 3,000-person daily quota Miller demanded in the mid-May meeting. ICE no longer posts comprehensive daily arrest statistics, but on social media, it has posted details of at least 350 arrests since May 26.

Miller's quota system also means that innocent or normal persons who are not breaking any laws are being arrested to reach the quota.

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4. Good Grief! This is a nation of immigrants! And that includes both Stephen Miller and TFG

None of us would be here if not for immigrants...