Headline of the Day Goes to Vanity Fair

Talk about a headline. Vanity Fair sure grabs attention with this one: STEPHEN MILLER RACES TO F–K OVER IMMIGRANTS ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR. The caps are original.

The article only gets saltier.

First, the author, Bess Levin, opens with her “top hits” of the Trump administration’s “despicable” immigration policies: “the travel ban, family separation, and spending billions of dollars in taxpayer money on his ridiculous border wall, but also using ICE to terrorize undocumented immigrants, attempting to allow the deportation of 700,000 people who came to the U.S. as children, cutting the refugee cap to the lowest level in history, and generally demonizing anyone who wasn’t born here and making their lives as miserable as possible.”

Levin continues: “Behind these policies was World’s Biggest Bastard nominee for four years running Stephen Miller, the 35-year-old adviser who cut his teeth working for Jeff Sessions and defied his upbringing in Santa Monica to become a white supremacist.”

Ooof.

Setting aside the tart language, what exactly is Miller trying to do? According to the article, he’s looking to do as much as he can before the Biden administration takes over to slow down and limit legal migration with changes to the citizenship test (discussed on this blog here), update the USCIS policy manual regarding grants and denials of visas, limit work permits for immigrants awaiting deportation but not in custody, and limit H1B visas and making them harder to obtain.

-KitJ