Stephen Miller May Have Cost Trump the Wall

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump could have had his wall. In early 2018, Democrats offered to appropriate funding for a border wall — not just some funding, the full $25 billion — if the president would agree to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States as part of President Obama’s DACA program. Trump had said previously that he supported a pathway to citizenship for “dreamers,” but ultimately rejected the deal because it didn’t also include restrictions on legal immigration.

In other words, the border wall itself wasn’t quite bigoted enough for the Trump administration, particularly its chief immigration policy architect, Stephen Miller.

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A few months after helping scuttle the deal that would have funded the wall, Miller spearheaded the policy that resulted in the separation of thousands of families at the southern border. Most of those families were not criminals; they were refugees seeking asylum, a right recognized by the United States. According to Team of Vipers, a new tell-all book from former White House staffer Cliff Sims, Miller isn’t a fan of the nation’s legacy of aiding distressed foreign nationals. Excerpts published by The Atlantic on Monday describe an exchange between Sims and Miller when the former approached the latter out of concern that the administration wasn’t doing more to help refugees, particularly persecuted Christians. “I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched America’s soil,” Miller said, according to the book.

Shortly after the excerpts were published, Politico reported that Trump is “very pissed off” and “really hopping mad” about the book.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-miller-border-wall-785372/

[madaboutharry]

1. The Trump administration is populated with amateurs

Imagine how much worse this nightmare would be if they knew what they were doing!

[RockRaven]

2. What is amazing about Trump isn't just that he's ignorant, awful, and incompetent, nor that

he surrounds himself with people who are the same...

but that once he follows their bad advice, and it all turns out badly for him... he does recognize that it was bad advice -- he gets mad, blames them for the bad outcome... and then keeps them around and listens to their advice again next time. That's insane.

I'm not aware of anything that Miller or Kushner have advised Trump to do (I mean their own ideas, not fluffing him about his pre-existing ideas) which has not turned out badly, either politically or legally.