A meeting last month between federal immigration officials and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller likely prompted the immigration sweeps in Los Angeles on Friday.
According to the Washington Examiner, Miller called an emergency meeting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s top 50 field heads in Washington, D.C., berating them for the agency’s arrest and deportation numbers. Miller told agents that criminals — or the “worst of the worst” — needn’t be ICE’s sole targets. Instead, he told them to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
