Senior policy advisor to President Trump Stephen Miller says the administration’s big fight for the summer will be against Congressional Democrats’ “open borders” agenda.
“The big fight this summer is going to be with the open borders Democratic caucus in Congress,” Miller told Breitbart in an exclusive interview published Thursday.
Miller framed the fight as the fundamental political contrast between the two parties at this time. He accused the Democratic Party of creating a gap between itself and the American people by pushing for more anti-enforcement positions on immigration.
“You saw members of the Democratic Party and the media leaping to the defense of the gang that is engaged in the most vile, dehumanizing, and egregious actions,” Miller said in reference to their criticism of President Trump’s MS-13 “animals” comment.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that people should question Trump’s attack on MS-13 members, specifically when he called them “animals” in an immigration round table earlier this week. The White House has since doubled and even tripled down on the language the president used.
In an interview with “Fox and Friends” that aired Thursday morning, Trump defended his characterization of the criminals and said Democrats, with Pelosi leading the pack, are defending this gang.
“The Democrats are sticking up for MS-13. You heard Nancy Pelosi the other day, like, trying to find all sorts of reasons why they should be able to stay,” Trump told Fox News. “These are stone cold killers, vicious killers.”
