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Rhiannon12866

(258,320 posts)
Tue May 12, 2026, 03:50 AM 12 hrs ago

Stephen Miller's Downfall Begins - Trump Just Dismantled His Immigration Empire - Adam Kinzinger



Stephen Miller spent the first year of Trump's second term building the most aggressive immigration enforcement operation in modern American history with mass workplace raids, roving Border Patrol strike forces, and a deportation machine unlike anything this country has seen. Trump signed off on all of it.

Now Trump is dismantling it. The Atlantic reports that the Border Patrol strike forces Miller designed have been shut down, and career law enforcement officials have been handed back control of the deportation program. It is the most significant internal retreat by the President on his own immigration agenda since taking office and it signals a stark decline in Miller's standing inside the White House.

But the Miller story is just the beginning. Today Adam Kinzinger also covers Trump's escalating frustration with Cuba's refusal to collapse, the Iran ceasefire now closer to falling apart than at any point since April, an update on the hantavirus outbreak with 18 Americans now in quarantine in Nebraska, and the Republican Party's stunning silence on gas prices that have jumped 50% since the Iran war began. - 05/11/2026.



⏱️ Video Chapters ⏱️
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Miller's Immigration Empire Crumbles
03:31 Trump's Cuba Strategy Is Failing
05:19 Trump Rejected Iran's Offer - Now What?
07:48The Outbreak Didn't End After Docking
09:58 Where Are the "I Did That" Stickers Now?



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Stephen Miller's Downfall Begins - Trump Just Dismantled His Immigration Empire - Adam Kinzinger (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 12 hrs ago OP
The so called immigration raids are finally affecting the bottom line of the Epstein class. mwmisses4289 8 hrs ago #1
One has to wonder... OldBaldy1701E 8 hrs ago #2

mwmisses4289

(4,648 posts)
1. The so called immigration raids are finally affecting the bottom line of the Epstein class.
Tue May 12, 2026, 07:39 AM
8 hrs ago

Those folks who donated to trump because he was a useful tool, have found he's not so useful any more.
It'll be interesting to see what happens.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,492 posts)
2. One has to wonder...
Tue May 12, 2026, 07:55 AM
8 hrs ago

What contingencies that orange menace has created once he is removed from office.

Surely he will use what he knows to try and strong-arm the other wealthy elites who appear in those pages.

Surely they won't allow that to happen... will they?

(I am betting that they will go scorched earth on that idiot soon enough. The trick is to make sure that their actions ruin both sides... because we need neither rich people nor that orange gibbon.)

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