Even Stephen Miller is jumping on CBP for the killing of Alex Pretti

[Du916]

Source: Politico

In a statement, Miller said that the White House told DHS to use the extra personnel sent to the state from Customs and Border Protection to keep protesters away from fugitive apprehension operations — suggesting the confrontation that led to Pretti’s death violated those instructions.

“We are evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol,” he said.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/stephen-miller-cbp-alex-pretti-00751583

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My sense is that Miller is going after Noem, who claims to have been following orders of Miller and Trump. It’s time for popcorn.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. Welp, there goes Klaus Barbie Noem's pardon.

[FarPoint]

2. I sense he is just pisst that their plan/operation is being exposed

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by the actions of the ICE/ Nazi squad.... He is not caring about the shooting....does not think it was wrong....just them getting caught is why he is speaking up.

[jgmiller]

4. Agreed if he has to throw one of his minions to the wolves so his plan continues he will

[Prairie Gates]

3. At the end of the day, a human being was killed

A human being was publicly murdered in front of the entire world.

You don't just walk away from that. This hangs over each of the players forever. Are they that sure that they'll be able to hold on to their impunity FOREVER? Trump is short for this world, but both Miller and Noem are young enough.

[Claustrum]

5. Once again shows how useless the media is nowadays, no one asked if the agents are placed on leave?

If they broke protocol, shouldn’t we know if they are still walking in Minniapolis as an agent now?

[Bengus81]

15. They've been moved to another city to...I guess kill more people. Bovino stated as much

[Aussie105]

6. It's a bad look when a government sends in stormtroopers to intimidate a population.

Especially if some of the stormtroopers are gun happy.

Noem, Miller, Trump: they have no problem with the death causing incidents, but feel some fear of what the consequences will be.

What if *gasp* someone in the crowd fired back?

Civil war 101 - push a population too much and bad things start to happen.

[Phoenix61]

7. He's just trying to save his sorry ass. He'd throw his

first born under the bus to save his own ass.

[NJCher]

8. Stephanie Ruhle just announced this

on her show a short time ago.

The guests and Stephanie thought it was very unusual for someone like Miller to say something like this and that it is significant.

She is showing photos of a dozen repuke Congress persons who are saying there should be an investigation.

[SSJVegeta]

9. He was screaming at the leadership of these agencies for months to be more brutal

Now hes like "what? No. It was all them!"

[Mz Pip]

10. A little late

to read the room. In Stephen’s bubble, everyone is a fascist like him.

[Sweet Rosie Red]

11. Co-President Miller

tries tip toeing through the tulips and walking on eggshells, generating persuasive content for his senile audience of one.

[Hassler]

12. Yeah, he's making his play, but Killer Kristi murdered her puppy and a goat

What chance does a Duke graduate stand?

[Deminpenn]

13. Miller is scared he'll be the next one under the Trump bus

Miller rarely crawls out from under his rock. And when he does, it's to make statements that are both arrogant and lawless, unlike this most recent one.

[Bengus81]

14. Just like Hitler finally did with the SA and Ernest Rohm

Looks like those in Fat Hitler's murderous ICE regime will get off with just being fired instead of killed and shot.

Fire cosplay Barbie today!

[orangecrush]

16. ...

[Javaman]

17. he's just trying the best he can to scrape the shit off of him.

hard to do, when he's made of shit.