Trump set to give architect of mass deportation plan Stephen Miller a major White House role
Donald Trump is set to name top immigration adviser Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy in an administration zeroing in on an unprecedented border crackdown.
Miller was the architect of Trump’s immigration plan during his first term and will be on the frontlines of the president-elect’s scheme to carry out the largest mass deportation in history.
The decision comes less than 24 hours after Trump picked former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan as his border czar.
Miller has previously said that a second Trump administration would see a ten-fold increase in the number of migrants deported.
The news is triggering Democrats, including CNN pundit Tara Setmayer, who called Miller a ‘despicable human being’ moments after the pick was announced.
Donald Trump is set to name immigration adviser Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy in an administration zeroing in on a border crackdown
‘He’s a despicable human being that is a racist and a xenophobe, and his own family has disowned him,’ she stated.
Setmayer was referring to Miller’s estranged uncle who came out against his hard-line immigration positions in the previous administration.
Miller’s appointment was first reported by CNN as the 78-year-old shapes his second stint in the White House from Mar-a-Lago.
It is the latest in a flurry of influential White House appointments that have been made in the week since Election Day.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
In a September post on X responding to Mark Cuban, Miller floated some of the immigration policies that Trump’s team wants to implement once the president-elect is sworn in come January.
Miller promised then that there will be a 100 percent ‘perfect’ deportation rate under Trump.
‘Deploying Title 42/Safe 3rds/Remain in Mexico/Asylum Bars to achieve a one hundred percent perfect deportation rate at the border, finishing the wall, significantly enhancing criminal penalties for human smuggling and trafficking, and launching a DOD embargo of drug vessels from South America,’ Miller wrote.
Miller has been an advisor to Trump since his first White House term
Former Senior White House Advisor Stephen Miller arrives for a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at Lancaster Airport on November 03, 2024 in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Miller would often warm up Trump’s crowds at rallies
Stephen Miller, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner listen as Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks onstage following early results from the 2024 presidential election
Miller continued: ‘Terminating all of Kamala’s expedited entry and parole programs for illegals at the ports and by plane, terminating all Harris-imposed limits on ICE enforcement operations, restoring and expanding the terror travel ban, suspending refugee resettlement, and using 287(g) state and local partnerships in conjunction with federal law enforcement and DOD logistical support to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history.’
Republican vice president-elect J.D. Vance celebrated Trump’s selection on X Monday.
‘This is another fantastic pick by the president,’ Vance wrote on X. ‘Congrats Stephen!’
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff from 2020 – 2021, also sent his regard to Miller.
‘Congratulations to Stephen Miller on his selection as Deputy Chief for Policy — another excellent pick from President Trump who will work tirelessly to deliver on the America First agenda!’ Meadows wrote on X.
Article III founder Mike Davis also congratulated Miller on the appointment.
‘Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Elise Stefanik. Grand slam. And President Trump is only getting started,’ Davis wrote of the president-elect’s recent staffing picks.
President Donald Trump reviews his speech with Stephen Miller in the Oval Office of the White House on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021
Stephen Miller speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York
Miller notably was a main fixture in the first Trump administration.
He helped craft speeches for the Republican and also had a hand in several different policies, including many immigration related initiatives.
The 39-year-old helped craft Trump’s travel ban policies in January 2017 and later influenced policies regarding migrants at the U.S.-Mexico borer, including the controversial decision to separate family units.
On the campaign trail Miller often spoke just before the president-elect and would hammer home the detrimental impacts of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.
As deputy chief of staff Miller will work closely with Susie Wiles, who Trump just tapped to be his White House chief of staff last week.
