A Familiar Force Nurtures Trump's Instincts on Immigration: Stephen Miller
When self-inflicted damage left Donald J. Trump’s poll numbers sagging shortly after the Republican National Convention in 2016, the solution was to reframe the race around an incendiary issue that has animated Mr. Trump for decades: immigration.
Mr. Trump went to Arizona, where a year before he had first embraced the families of people killed by unauthorized immigrants, to give a major speech endorsing policies coveted by the most extreme immigration hard-liners.
“Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation,” Mr. Trump vowed. “That is what it means to have laws and to have a country. Otherwise, we don’t have a country.”
The person who helped crystallize Mr. Trump’s longstanding impulses around immigration into a political platform was Stephen Miller, his chief policy adviser. Now, as Mr. Trump searches anew for an electoral advantage, this time with his party’s control of Congress at stake in Tuesday’s midterm vote, Mr. Miller is again at his side.
In the last two weeks, Mr. Trump has followed an instinct, one nurtured by Mr. Miller, that a foreboding message on immigration can galvanize his supporters.
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