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The White House aide driving Trump's aggressive immigration agenda

He'd set an aggressive quota of 3,000 arrests per day in late May, and the efforts to meet that goal pushed U.S. immigration officers into more communities and businesses, triggering protests and political tensions with Democrats.

FILE PHOTO: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. / REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

U.S. Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. Masked immigration officers at courthouses and popular restaurants. Bans on travelers from more than a dozen countries.

For senior White House aide Stephen Miller, the architect of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, things were going according to plan. 

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