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CAN STEPHEN MILLER REALLY SAVE US?
Immigration hardliners have been on a rollercoaster the past week.
As Republicans lost the midterms, President Donald Trump called in to Fox News to dissect the election and said he’d be willing to “work with” the Democrats on immigration.
Cue eyebrows raising.
Work with them on … what, exactly?
The White House assured us that Trump was not talking about amnesty.
Then, after Chief of Staff Susie Wiles resigned Thursday night, Trump announced that he was naming noted mass deportation fan Stephen Miller to replace her.
For immigration hardliners, the appointment was a welcome development. But it didn’t necessarily resolve the underlying problem: The president himself seemed increasingly open to compromising on one of his signature campaign promises.
In an interview with 60 Minutes recorded before Miller’s appointment, Trump expressed sympathy for illegal immigrants working in agriculture and hospitality who have been in the country for years, suggesting that some might be allowed to stay.
As a source close to the White House told the Daily Caller, “The staff doesn’t matter. The President does what he wants.”
But Democrats might not have received that message.
I appeared yesterday on 2Way’s The Group Chat with Rep. Ro Khanna from California and asked him directly about a potential deal on immigration with the president.
His answer raised an intriguing possibility: Democrats may end up protecting Trump’s immigration agenda from Trump himself.