{"id":36165,"date":"2019-04-09T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36165"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:28:11","slug":"gop-to-intensify-war-on-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/gop-to-intensify-war-on-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP to Intensify War on Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday I covered the forced resignation of Republican Death Angel Kirstein Nielson as Homeland Security Secretary.\u00a0 I said that her replacement will be worse.\u00a0 I was only half right.\u00a0 I now understand that it does not matter who replaces her.\u00a0 That Republican will be just a figurehead.\u00a0 The real person running the department is an extreme Republican white supremacist, a Bannon prot\u00e9g\u00e9, and a pal of neo-Nazi, Richard Spencer.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/04\/trump-puts-stephen-miller-in-charge-of-immigration-family-separation-border.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump told Stephen Miller that he is in charge of immigration<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0409Miller\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0409Miller.png\" alt=\"0409Miller\" width=\"700\" height=\"546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As news broke of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/apr\/07\/kirstjen-nielsen-resigns-trump-homeland-security-secretary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abrupt departure of Kirstjen Nielsen<\/a>, Donald Trump\u2019s second homeland security secretary, reports swiftly followed that the move had been orchestrated by Stephen Miller, one of the administration\u2019s sharpest anti-immigration voices.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen\u2019s resignation on Sunday, following months of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/10\/18\/kelly-and-bolton-shouting-match-white-house-913871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speculation<\/a>, cast a spotlight on the forces behind the president\u2019s controversial policies on immigration, where Miller has been shown to be squarely at the center of influence.<\/p>\n<p>The senior adviser and speechwriter is the architect of some of the most restrictive components of Trump\u2019s immigration agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Bolstered by Trump\u2019s frustration over promises including building a border wall and slashing legal immigration, Miller is poised to usher more hardliners into the administration, seeking to turn rhetoric into results&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/apr\/08\/kirstjen-nielsen-stephen-miller-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-2_gKWJZ4k0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video confirmation<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-2_gKWJZ4k0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As an added bonus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2I6QCjRBQak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samantha Bee<\/a> did a piece on him in January 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2I6QCjRBQak\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">God help us all!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I covered the forced resignation of Republican Death Angel Kirstein Nielson as Homeland Security Secretary.\u00a0 I said that her replacement will be worse.\u00a0 I was only half right.\u00a0 I now understand that it does not matter who replaces her.\u00a0 That Republican will be just a figurehead.\u00a0 The real person running the department is an <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/gop-to-intensify-war-on-refugees\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}