Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the US President, Donald Trump, of lying on issues concerning immigration. He reportedly said his deportation crackdown “might be too tough” in the same week he appointed Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff. The latter is a designer of his deportation policies.
“President Trump, and what voters have recognized on Tuesday, is that President Trump says one thing and he does another,” the New York Democrat said in an interview with CBS News. “He said that he wasn’t going to get us into new wars, he said he was going to lower prices, he got us into Iran, and then he shot up prices across the board.”
The President announced on his platform, “Truth Social,” on Friday that Miller, his deputy chief of staff and “one of my most trusted advisors,” was to be appointed White House Chief of Staff as of Monday. Ms. Susie Wiles, the first woman to hold that office, moves to Trump’s campaign team. The move happened following the Republicans’ defeat in the Nov. 3 Midterm election.
On the same day, the President gave a speech to “60 Minutes,” which CBS reporters prepared for broadcast. In the program, he was questioned about his deportation policy by CBS News reporter Ross Douthat.
“Too tough,” Trump replied. When Douthat pressed him, he added, “I think it might be too tough, yeah.”
Trump also promised to work on immigration policies with Democrats, saying, “I’d love to do something on immigration.” CBS News noted Miller’s appointment occurred an hour after the interview.
“It’s the same thing here, where he is now going on television saying that immigration went too far, while also in the same week appointing Stephen Miller, a neo-Nazi and the architect of the most brutal, of the absolute most brutal immigration policies that are dragging people out by their ankles and mothers in the streets to be his chief of staff at the White House, who is essentially the person that will be dictating and has the most power and influence over the decisions that the president makes,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Stephen Miller had always been one of Trump’s advisers. He was responsible for most of the controversial policies in the former president’s first term, including separating immigrant families at the Southern border of America. In the second term, he managed mass deportation efforts and aggressive actions by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Now the man has been a top White House staffer for the last two years of Trump’s tenure.
Remarks to “60 Minutes” are seen as a sign of a change in Trump’s tone. Earlier, he called raids “haven’t gone far enough.”
Ocasio-Cortez has always been a tough critic of Mr. Miller in Congress. In 2019, she initiated a petition for his resignation after the Southern Poverty Law Center published a report on Miller’s emails and labeled him a white nationalist.
“So President Trump can go on television and say whatever it is that he wants to say. The American people are watching what he does, and what he has done is made a decision after a historic midterm election that was a rebuke of his immigration policies, and make this decision in appointing Stephen Miller to affirm and uplift the worst and most cruel ICE policies that they have to offer,” Cortez said.
“And so the fact of the matter is, I think that Stephen Miller, as chief of staff, is completely untenable and unacceptable to the American people,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “and it’s in direct contradiction to what the president is saying.”
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