Donald Trump is set to name top immigration adviser Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy in an administration zeroing in on an unprecedented border crackdown.
Miller was the architect of Trump’s immigration plan during his first term and will be on the frontlines of the president-elect’s scheme to carry out the largest mass deportation in history.
The decision comes less than 24 hours after Trump picked former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan as his border czar.
Miller has previously said that a second Trump administration would see a ten-fold increase in the number of migrants deported.
The news is triggering Democrats, including CNN pundit Tara Setmayer, who called Miller a ‘despicable human being’ moments after the pick was announced.
‘He’s a despicable human being that is a racist and a xenophobe, and his own family has disowned him,’ she stated.
Setmayer was referring to Miller’s estranged uncle who came out against his hardline immigration positions in the previous administration.
Miller’s appointment was first reported by CNN as the 78-year-old Trump shapes his second stint in the White House from his home base in Florida’s Mar-a-Lago.
Republican Vice President-elect J.D. Vance confirmed Trump’s selection of Miller on X Monday calling it ‘another fantastic pick by the president.’
It is the latest in a flurry of influential administration appointments that have been made in the week since Election Day.
Trump announced that Homan will be returning to his administration as ‘border czar’ and DailyMail.com confirmed Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is taking the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on Miller.
In a September post on X responding to Mark Cuban, Miller floated some of the immigration policies that Trump’s team wants to implement once the president-elect is sworn in come January.
Miller promised then that there will be a 100 percent ‘perfect’ deportation rate under Trump.
‘Deploying Title 42/Safe 3rds/Remain in Mexico/Asylum Bars to achieve a one hundred percent perfect deportation rate at the border, finishing the wall, significantly enhancing criminal penalties for human smuggling and trafficking, and launching a DOD embargo of drug vessels from South America,’ Miller wrote.
Miller continued: ‘Terminating all of Kamala’s expedited entry and parole programs for illegals at the ports and by plane, terminating all Harris-imposed limits on ICE enforcement operations, restoring and expanding the terror travel ban, suspending refugee resettlement, and using 287(g) state and local partnerships in conjunction with federal law enforcement and DOD logistical support to carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history.’
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s chief of staff from 2020 to 2021, also sent his regards to Miller.
‘Congratulations to Stephen Miller on his selection as Deputy Chief for Policy — another excellent pick from President Trump who will work tirelessly to deliver on the America First agenda!’ Meadows wrote on X.
Article III founder Mike Davis also congratulated Miller on the appointment.
‘Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Elise Stefanik. Grand slam. And President Trump is only getting started,’ Davis wrote of the president-elect’s recent staffing picks.
Miller notably was a main fixture in the first Trump administration.
He helped craft speeches for the Republican and also had a hand in several different policies, including many immigration related initiatives.
The 39-year-old helped craft Trump’s travel ban policies in January 2017 and later influenced policies regarding migrants at the U.S.-Mexico borer, including the controversial decision to separate family units.
On the campaign trail Miller often spoke just before the president-elect and would hammer home the detrimental impacts of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.
As deputy chief of staff Miller will work closely with Susie Wiles, who Trump just tapped to be his White House chief of staff last week.