Stephen Miller laughs off CNN's 'dumb query' about ICE racial profiling

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Prime White Home aide Stephen Miller laughed off what he known as a "dumb query" about alleged racial profiling in immigration raids throughout a testy CNN interview on Monday.

Miller spoke with host Boris Sanchez about President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops to Illinois to guard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amenities.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker criticized the choice, calling it an "invasion" by the Trump administration and accusing ICE brokers of harassing individuals based mostly solely on their race.

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker criticized President Donald Trump’s choice to deploy 400 Texas Nationwide Guard troops to Illinois and Oregon. (Getty Photos)

"[I]s it the case that, as Pritzker frames it, you're profiling Brown individuals, that this immigration crackdown is designed to go after individuals of coloration?" Sanchez requested.

"Oh, what a dumb query," Miller laughed. "The unlawful aliens who're listed below are taking jobs away from Blacks. They’re taking jobs away from Whites. They’re taking jobs away from Latinos. They’re taking their well being advantages away. They’re taking their faculty slots away. And naturally, in lots of instances, they’re committing heinous crimes. We can not have a system of regulation on this nation that privileges unlawful aliens over Americans. And that’s what they’re doing. You understand it, and I do know it."

"In order that’s not precisely a no, Stephen," Sanchez responded. "Are you able to simply unequivocally state that immigration insurance policies—"

"I mentioned it was a dumb query." Miller interrupted. "OK, no, and it was a dumb query."

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White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller denied ICE brokers have been racially profiling suspects. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Elsewhere within the interview, Sanchez took difficulty with Miller describing ICE protesters as "terrorists."

"Is not that hyperbolic to name them terrorists?" Sanchez requested.

"No. If something, I am understating the severity of the state of affairs," Miller mentioned. "What difficulty was extra central in 2024 than turning again the border invasion? And for the reason that day we got here in, ICE officers have been subjected to a nonstop marketing campaign of bodily violence and harassment each single day, and outdoors the Portland discipline workplace, specifically, each evening."

He added, "They arrive. They assemble. They struggle. They attempt to impede motion. They bodily assault. For what function? As a result of we had an election, Boris. We had one. What is the function? To make use of precise bodily violence to alter the results of the election. To say you can't flip again the border invasion. Do you have got any concept what number of sources we've needed to redesignate to cope with these road terrorists?"

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President Donald Trump's choice to deploy Nationwide Guard troops adopted weeks of unrest between officers, ICE brokers and protesters. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Photos)

Sanchez additionally requested Miller whether or not there have been considerations over a future Democratic president sending Nationwide Guard troops to crimson states over "what quantities to an illustration that will get rowdy."

"They're posting footage of their youngsters as a result of it is a demonstration." Miller responded sarcastically. "They've a sniper on high of a constructing firing a high-caliber rifle at an ICE facility as a result of it is a demonstration, and they're engaged in a vehicle-ramming assaults as a result of it’s an illustration."

Fox News Digital reached out to CNN and the White Home for remark.

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Miller has regularly clashed with CNN anchors over Trump administration insurance policies. In Could, he attacked what he known as CNN's Pamela Brown's "lazy assumptions" over Trump’s govt energy.

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