Stephen Miller Tells Maria Bartiromo Mass ‘Deportations’ Will Be Trump’s First Priority Upon Taking the Oath
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s pick for White House deputy chief of staff for policy, told Fox News on Sunday morning that mass deportations of immigrants will be the president-elect’s first priority on Jan. 20.
During an interview with network anchor Maria Bartiromo, Trump’s closest immigration adviser said other initiatives will take a backseat while the incoming administration focuses on border security, funding for ICE, and “the largest deportation operation” ever seen.
While Trump wants to extend his first-term tax cuts and focus on the debt ceiling in the coming months, Miller said the border will come first.
“First, you can get John Thune and Lindsey Graham have promised that they can get a full funding package for the border, the most significant border security investment in American history, which would be the biggest domestic policy win in at least 50 years, to the president’s desk in January or early February,” he said. Miller added:
That would mean a historic increase in border agents, a pay raise for both full funding for military operations, full funding for ice beds, full funding for air marine operations, full funding for all of the barriers and technology that you need to ensure there’s never another got away entering this country. Now, President Trump, regardless on day one, is going to issue a series of executive orders that seal the border shut and begin the largest deportation operation in American history.
But you’re talking about what would be the largest investment in immigration and border security. If some of the Republicans have been talking about for decades. But with Donald Trump, this is something that is going to happen. You’ll be the most important and significant, as I said, domestic policy achievement in half a century. Then the plan, as Senator Thune has laid out as incoming majority leader Thune has laid out, would be to move immediately at that point.
Miller concluded after Trump takes action on immigration, he will focus on tax and trade reform and the debt ceiling.
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