Prominent right-wing lawyer Gregg Nunziata on Sunday slammed White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller after the top advisor to President Donald Trump argued “the only process illegals are due is deportation.”
Miller was reacting to a federal judge’s Friday ruling that ordered the Trump administration “to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man who said he was deported to Mexico despite fearing he would be persecuted there, after officials acknowledged an error in his case,” CNBC reported.
The official X account for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, quoting the CNBC article on the judge’s ruling, berated “this federal activist judge” who “order[ed] us to bring [a Guatemalan man] back, so he can have an opportunity to prove why he should be granted asylum to a country that he has had no past connection to.”
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That DHS post prompted Miller’s attack on due process — a common refrain from the top Trump aideTrump aide. As the Daily Beast reports, “Miller’s influence on Trump was evident when, last month, he took to TruthSocial to mount a similar argument, claiming that there simply was not sufficient time or court capacity to afford every potential deportee due process.”
Responding to Miller, Nunziata, a Federalist Society contributor and former domestic policy adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, bemoaned the deputy chief of staff as a “propagandist” who “hurts the [White House] in court.”
“The White House could have a lawyer pushing an aggressive message with a chance of moving the law in its direction, or it could have a propagandist saying one untrue and unlawful thing after another,” Nunziata wrote. “It chose the latter, which hurts the [White House] in court and undermines public faith.”
Read the full report at the Daily Beast.
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