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

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Quotas were how Stalin operated. "Send me a list of 150 to execute", and you got that 150 whatever it took.

Charges and evidence didn't matter; you were just trying to keep your own name off the list.

It seems Miller doesn't get enough inspiration from Nazis anymore; now his reading list is expanding to Russian mass murderers. Will he push for a "Great Leap Forward" next ? Or a "Cultural Revolution" ?

[PermatexNo.2]

2. The New Republic is an admittedly left-wing publication and has been forever, but when they say things like.....

......."maximal cruelty and suffering on the vulnerable" and call Miller "a dime-store fascist", you know that they are pulling out all the stops on Trump, his evil minions and their disastrous plans for this country.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. If we want to preserve our Democratic form of government, we need to pull out all of the stops

I am nervous. The press and the courts have been opposing trump and Miller's efforts to destroy our democratic form of government

[miyazaki]

4. Advisors give orders? Wtf.

Unless it's their grave, there won't be a hole deep enough to hide in for these fuckers when this turns around.

[UTUSN]

5. Takes his mind off from his wife going to work with MUSKrat?

[Initech]

6. Because they've been lied to by cable news propaganda and are chasing an invisible boogeyman.

And cable news propaganda is the result of the United States not regulating anything. Reagan is dead. Let's not keep Reaganism alive. It needs to be relegated to the dust bin of history.

[Grokenstein]

7. A brief sneak preview of Miller's future...and ours?

[AZProgressive]

8. A lot of politicians especially on the Republican side

are highly interested in enforcing low level crime while letting the high end criminals get away. Wasting resources on minor offenses looks like they are doing something about crime but with all the attention & resources wasted on low level offenses the high end criminals go undetected and get away with their crimes.

[Ms. Toad]

9. The article says nothing about non-white people.

Yes we know who he really wants out - BUT the quotas include all people.

But as I've said repeatedly - they are going for the east catch and kill solely to get the numbers up. That's why the deportations include anyone entering the country for whom they can manufacture a reason to detain and deport. Many of these via planes and the northern border are white. Via the Southern border, more non-white. Via courts and immigration appointments, more non-white. But right now, race is irrelevant if you are an easy catch and kill. Numbers are numbers.