Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's top homeland security adviser, has played a central role in shaping a U.S. military campaign that has carried out lethal strikes against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, according to current and former U.S. officials cited in a sprawling report by The Washington Post.
The campaign, which began in September, marks an unprecedented expansion of U.S. military force against alleged narcotics traffickers. Since then, the United States has launched more than two dozen strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs, killing at least 99 people, according to officials familiar with the operations.
