Stephen Miller laughs off Pritzker’s ‘lie’ ICE is racially profiling illegal immigrants

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White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller denied that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racially profiling its detainees, laughing when a CNN anchor asked him a question on the topic.

Illinois and Chicago sued the Trump administration on Monday to block its move to send National Guard troops into the city, two days after Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump would federalize 300 Illinois National Guard troops. Pritzker said Sunday that ICE and Customs and Border Protection are “raiding neighborhoods” and “picking up people who are brown and black.”

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