“I see that the head of the Farrakhan Fan Club, took a short break from spewing her usual anti-semitic bigotry today to accuse a Jewish man of being a ‘white nationalist’ because she apparently has no shame,” Trump Jr. Omar’s tweet drew the ire of Donald Trump Jr., who took a swipe at the Muslim Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News photos: AP)
Stephen Miller, Ilhan Omar and the U.S-Mexico border wall. border with Mexico, Trump had a new message for asylum-seekers as well as immigrants crossing the border illegally. But in recent months, the president has reportedly been urging Homeland Security officials to take tougher action to stop families from seeking asylum.Īt an event Friday in Calexico, Calif., to promote construction of a wall on the U.S. Miller, who in the first week of the administration crafted Trump’s controversial travel ban targeting people from seven majority-Muslim countries, has claimed credit as one of the chief architects of the child separation policy, intended to discourage families from crossing the border in search of asylum.Īfter public outcry, Trump issued an executive order rescinding the “zero tolerance” immigration policy that led to migrant children being separated from their parents. Omar’s tweet linked to a story that called Miller, who has a reputation as an immigration hard-liner, the “mastermind” behind the move.Īccording to multiple reports, Miller also convinced Trump to remove top officials at the Department of Homeland Security who stood in the way of implementing hard-line immigration policies, including reinstituting family separations at the southern border. On Friday, President Trump abruptly withdrew his nomination of Ronald Vitiello to run the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, leaving it without a Senate-confirmed director during what the president has called an immigration “crisis.” Trump said he wanted to move ICE in a “tougher direction.”
“The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage.” “Stephen Miller is a white nationalist,” Omar tweeted on Monday night.
Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., called White House senior adviser Stephen Miller a “white nationalist” for pushing the Trump administration toward harsher enforcement of border and immigration policy.
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