What a dysfunctional relationship! Miller will take any question and return to the tortured, raped, and murdered women and girls who rule his world. The reporters cling to the hope that the plight of the deportees will seize the hearts of America. If only Miller would say something sufficiently inhumane about them, but every answer is the same: Think of their victims — the women and girls!I am SO GLAD the Trump administration decided to completely UNLEASH Stephen Miller on the media.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 14, 2025
He regularly displays a masterclass in debunking their lies.
"Guys - do you know the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order? Do you know the difference? Any… pic.twitter.com/sDmzpLtiyu
April 15, 2025
Stephen Miller goes into a long Trumpish "weave," and the reporters don't turn and walk away.
I guess they're still waiting and hoping that they'll be the one to wedge in a question that will somehow stymie the man who's never going to stop:
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Why is he holding a press conference in the middle of a suburban street?
Do the “women and girls” need protecting or not? Do American citizens need protection from the millions of unvetted illegals allowed into the USA or not?
Yes. I believe they do.
Tough to stage a morality play when all the actors are amoral.
What if the "forgotten man" is a woman? It's almost as if some individuals see that the culture is primed to respond in a positive fashion to this proposal.
Also, Rotherham. Yes, I know. The reaction is primal. We can all see it, unless we look away. Next thing, Miller will be calling everyone asking difficult questions a racist or something. It's not like this will work forever, but it seems to be working fine right now.
Is he self-aware?
He’s not wrong you know. The Biden Administration turned a blind eye to the crimes of the illegals. Miller may be overwrought, but he’s not wrong.
Thanks for this Ann Althouse.
Last night I watched ABC News and the breathless report of Terry Moran about the poor Maryland Man (husband and father!) who was in that awesome prison in El Salvador. Nothing was explained.
This AM I heard NPR’s immigration reporter discuss how tge Trump Administration was demonizing Venezuelans, for no reason at all, in order to support Trump’s mass deportations. Not a word about MS-13 or TdeA. Or the fact these people are here illegally.
The Press is a Fifth Column out to destroy America. Two examples of why America hates the Press.
The deportees have a tort case but not a constitutional case, if they can get a jury to award damages.
In all seriousness, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Merrick Garland and Myorakis should be shipped to Super Max in El Salvador. They created the problem:
It's all about which class of victims you care about, and which you don't. It's the same everywhere. Same with ever other issue. For instance, if you really are worried about global warming, why do you advocate for millions of migrants who are living low carbon lives in other countries to come here and live like Americans?
I actually read once an interview with a woman who was an activist against human trafficking, but she wouldn't comment on the situation on the Mexican border, since it would only "help Trump," and strengthen his case for a wall.
Remember when there was a New Years Eve street party in a major city in Germany, a few years back, and there were around two thousand sexual assaults that occurred? The press in Germany was forbidden to report on it, because that would be "racist" and only the center right press in the US carried the item.
In other words, he's awesome and unflappable. I can't help comparing him to the lying diversity hire who resembled a bitchy mop in the last administration.
Team Trump is leading the media and the lower courts on a merry chase. Neither the MSM nor the district courts are going to get what they want from Trump, and he is going to ignore their bleating and appeals to the way things used to be.
"Do the “women and girls” need protecting or not?"
I'm calling attention to his tic.
Why the constant gendering of the law and order interest?
I can see why. I just want to call attention to it. He knows women want to feel protected and men want to feel that women are protected. Men want to feel that they are providing the protection that is needed, but individual men cannot provide enough protection if the community has declined into disorder. Their emasculation looms.
He actually spent the first five minutes correcting reporters' hyperbolic and dishonest characterizations of the legalities of American immigration law, not talking about crime victims. But what's wrong with his point that these reporters refuse to even discuss the crime victims? If my illegal next door neighbor can get cut loose several times by a sanctuary county and then repeatedly rape his 11-year-old daughter in our non-sanctuary county, after having impregnated another 11-year old daughter with no consequences in the sanctuary county, then, yeah, Miller should be talking about it, and so should the reporters, and I find this notion that Miller is obsessed with the subject to be rather cavalier. We don't all have the money to live in safety. Those little girls sure didn't. Miller is doing his job, and it's about time the media steps up and does their's.
Jaq @ 7:50.
The American taxpayer is the victim.
I actually read once an interview with a woman who was an activist against human trafficking, but she wouldn't comment on the situation on the Mexican border, since it would only "help Trump," and strengthen his case for a wall.
Same as it ever was. For the Left the "issue" is never the issue. Overthrowing our government is the issue. So yes the Leftist Press and all the activists will not speak out even on their own stated issues if it appears to help Trump. Not actual help, just the appearance of it is enough to cause, say, a governor to hide behind a stupid binder for appearances sake!
Reporters asking theoreticals as "sincere nimbys". Majority of victims are low income Hispanics. TDA mobs in Madison? Perhaps in Ann Arbor?
Try some and make a difference Madison!
This is not a verbal tic, nor is it about men feeling emasculated. It is a logical explanation of our actual immigration laws and policies; what happens when they are subverted by the previous administration, and about calling out the media for failing to report on -- for disappearing, as in a banana republic -- the henious consequences of this betrayal by the previous administration.
Martha's Vineyard? Get real. This is Goths vs Romans.
In Chicago, significant percentage of uptick in street-crime is directly caused by "undocumented recently arrived migrant" male Venezuelans. One blog site bravely publishes the police reports, boldly states the nationalities of said arrested street-criminals, and posts their mug shots. Upstanding future citizens these guys are not. Exhibits of extreme facial tattooing they often are. In example of Blue-Blue-Blue Chicago, the recent "migrants" are absolutely a detriment to US citizens living in Chicago; they've cost us $1+ billion in diverted local property taxes going to fund upkeep of 35,000 new migrants, and cost us unknown additional time and money in policing, arrests and court-time, jailing, public defender services, and NGO "migrant" contracts.
Sure seems progressive-liberal democrats demostrate anti-female politics. Avid support for transwomen in womens sports in anti-female. Avid support for allowing transgirls in girls locker-rooms is anti-female. Avid support for "migrants" who commit street-crimes and sex-crimes, while ignoring plight of the female victims is anti-female. Avid support for transwomen pretending to be lesbians is anti-female...
Reminds me of the story that removing 20,000 mostly ethnically Russian children from a war zone, from an area had been Russian for centuries up to 1992, children whose parents had been killed by Ukrainian rocket attacks and artillery barrages in the civil war that followed the US backed coup in 2014, and then doing one's best to return them to their relatives where possible, and to protect them, is defined as a "war crime" that only the sickest human being in the world, Putin, could think to commit.
What Putin did was undoubtedly a good deed, and of course it could not be allowed to stand as such in the historical record, so the script was flipped to make it a war crime.
Once you see how these propagandists play jujitsu with the narrative to trip up the unwary, which is almost everybody, you see it everywhere. It's their first rule.
and return to the tortured, raped, and murdered women and girls who rule his world
mymymy how balance swings. Who knew it would take rapers and murderers for lefties to become heartless conservatives…
Progressive-liberal democrats, decrying Trump's immigration policies from the safety of their predominantly-white overtly upper-upper-upper middle class suburbs, from the safety of their burglar-alarmed $1+ million single-family house. Nice.
Stephen Miller is doing what Stephen Miller does. He's smart, well spoken, educated on his topics and stances, and fights. He also does not see the media as a partner in getting messages out.
These media folk asking him questions are a half step up from papparazzi, if that.
Miller will take any question and return to the tortured, raped, and murdered women and girls who rule his world.
This strikes me as a very unfair statement. Miller spoke/answered questions for about 4 1/2 minutes without bringing tortured, raped, or murdered women up, during which he was repeatedly asked about whether the Trump administration is wrong for having sent Garcia, an El Salvadorian citizen who (a) has no right to be in this country, (b) can be legally deported solely on the basis of his being here illegally, whether a gang member or not, and (c) has been found twice by immigration courts to be an MS-13 member and ordered deported, back to El Salvador. He finally became fed up with the ridiculous amount of "concern" that the media is paying to Garcia while ignoring the consequences of having illegals in the country committing horrible crimes. I thought he was very patient and very well spoken.
I thought he was very patient and very well spoken.
He was. We can’t have that…
"Miller will take any question and return to the tortured, raped, and murdered women and girls who rule his world...."
They rule his world, or they drive his mission? How many times did we hear a spokesperson lecture the crowd on how they should be feeling about St. George, the convicted felon that over-dosed, or how we should be hating the cops that were present at his death, and loving the rioters that were out looting, and then burning?
How many times has the lecture been delivered about the terror and devastation of January 6th, that was 'worse than 9/11' or 'worse than Pearl Harbor'? One thing about Miller, you don't immediately know that he knows he's lying. His statements are check-able. And nobody seems to be making news reports on how he's got his facts wrong. Not that I would be inclined to believe them if they did.
This insistence by the Progressive Democrat Media that they can steer any conversation onto their fact-free, biased-and-loving-it playing field can only end one way, and judging from the ratings and the private subsidization that is required to keep these rags afloat, I hope it takes a long, painful time for them to expire.
Their emasculation looms.
That seems like an unfair shot at men who are living in the system and following the rules. There is a monopoly on the use of force. The authorities entrusted to uphold and enforce the law and protect all of us have betrayed that trust. They have created the problem deliberately in hopes of benefitting themselves.
We have elected some new authorities and are again trusting them to solve this problem and protect the citizens which is their duty. If that fails or is blocked, I'm not so sure men are going slink away emasculated.
Maybe something else is looming.
I would think journalists would stop asking him questions. He's very good at reframing.
"Why the constant gendering of the law and order interest?"
It was not "constant" in this encounter. Even if so, so what? Some illegal aliens commit horrrible crimes; women and girls are primary victims; let's reduce the chances by enforcing the law and removing illegal aliens asap. Would seem to be a "constant" obligation of responsible government.
America is healing! Latest Harvard Harris poll shows OVERWHELMING support for Trump policies:
74% for deporting illegals
70% for closing the border
69% for DOGE
65% to ban trans men from girl sports
57% for ending foreign aid
57% for reciprocal tariffs
53% for Alaska drilling
https://x.com/jessalanfields/status/1911831117499429039
I saw part of this Stephen Miller clip on the tube last night. I commented to my wife that Trump and most of his high level appointees will take any question, any time--and answer at length. I think that's called "transparency". Now one might not like what they have to say, but by gum they are going to say it.
He presents a forceful and convincing argument on behalf of Trump's immigration policies. Thank God, none of those journalists' readers or viewers will hear them.
Tic Tac Toe.
Irrational emotionalism is being fought with irrational emotionalism. Sorry
That's just how things are.
I'm going to listen to the NPR "news" more often to see how twisted it is.
Think of their victims — the women and girls!
Certainly the families and friends of the victims are doing just that.
As I commented on last night’s cafe thread, the Dumbocrats keep thinking (if we can abuse the word by applying it to what Democrats do) that using legal pettifoggery to keep gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13 in this country they are shoring up the Hispanic vote. What they are doing is giving an ever greater share of the Hispanic vote to us Republicans.
Dave, I often listen to NPR radio while driving in my car. If you give it a good listen, you will be quite amazed at the casual and direct misinformation, disinformation, lying, and propaganda. It is both amazing and disgusting that we taxpayers are paying for this in part.
Miller is a big pain in the ass to those who don’t care about tortured, raped and murdered girls. If he doesn’t shut up about it, the news people are going to find someone else to talk to. Perhaps Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez will comfort them.
It would great if DJT could clone & install Miller's personality and intellect into ALL his people. Finding your "best"message and then staying on it is 90% modern politics. Too bad about the hurt feels of the shills. (OST though.. Nah, fuck 'em).
We do have a 'broken' immigration system. Biden broke it. What's going on now is just applying the laws and picking up the pieces.
"Constant gendering"? It's not constant but look what happened in Britain. Politicians and officials were content to stand by as girls were being groomed and exploited. You can't take gender out of that. HM's government ought to be hearing about that from now until kingdom come. The "women and girls" angle also stands out in the US cases of illegal immigrant violence. I suppose Miller could have mentioned a story about a family or couple or man terrorized by TdA in an apartment complex, but as Martha Raddatz informed us, that was only in a few apartment complexes.
Abrego Garcia was supporting his wife and three kids, including a 5 year-old with autism and despite never being charged with a crime, he was detained by ICE and shipped to El Salvador. The brutality and incompetence involved in the level of crimes that the American government has committed against Abrego Garcia as well as ignoring a Supreme Court order is terrifying.
Back around 1900, when the USA was starting to throw its weight around globally, one argument of the imperialist faction was that America needed to protect women and girls of color from their beastly husbands and fathers.
Now we have the threat of sexual violence against our own women and girls from the descendants of those beastly men, encouraged and defended by too many Americans.
History rarely goes full circle, but it often spirals.
Dunham . . . Dunham . . .
Lena, is that you?
"Their emasculation looms."
With telephoto eyes ominously aglow, titanium-armored Robo-Freud intones, "I'm back."
2 separate Immigration courts determined Abrego Garcia to be here illegally and to be a member of a notable criminal gang.
He had ZERO right to be present in the US.
"despite never being charged with a crime..."
That is a great example of an outright lie. Being present in the USA without a visa is a crime. It is a crime to enter the United States without going through Customs and Immigration control. A crime. That's why illegal aliens, when they are confronted by the Border Patrol are given a court date, where they are charged to appear - but usually ignore, almost always. You are stating things in bad faith.
the fellow who provided the plans to the first wtc bombers was an Egyptian cab driver, who married an American and joined the FDNY, thats how far they will go
Miller has a job, and he’s excellent at it. Much better at his than most of the reporters are at theirs.
"... return to the tortured, raped, and murdered women and girls who rule his world."
Yeah, what a schmuck. Worrying about tortured, raped and murdered women and girls.
In Aurora CO - the leftist local media loyal-y denied the existence of violent Tren De Aragua gangs. These gangs were successful forcing law abiding citizens - to move out of their apartments.
BTW - the leftist local media had to admit it was all true after Cindy Romero - one of the US citizens who captured footage of the Tren De Aragua gangs holding large guns as they stood in front of neighbors doorways... threatening them and often breaking down the doors.
Again- the left cover-for and make excuses for criminal aliens.
Why not focus on the victims of these criminal illegals?
The left refuse to give a damn. Because they authentically do not give a damn.
Abrego Garcia was supporting his wife and three kids, including a 5 year-old with autism and despite never being charged with a crime, he was detained by ICE and shipped to El Salvador.
So what? Taxpaying American citizens are separated from their families all the time when they commit crimes.
This man's presence here is an ongoing crime, and he was served with a final deportation order six years ago. It's only because of the Democrats' craven lust for political power that he was allowed to remain here in the first place. If illegal immigrants voted Republican, the Democrats would have already built a 100 foot high wall with land mines and machine gun nests, and we wouldn't hear the faintest peep from the left about their civil rights and the wondrous diversity they bring to us.
Obama suspended the Cuban Adjustment Act on the way out, what Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright would have recommended
the left cover-for and make excuses for criminal aliens.
Why not focus on the victims of these criminal illegals?
The left refuse to give a damn. Because they authentically do not give a damn.
Oh they give a damn all right. They LOVE squalor and poverty and crime and disorder. Their policies are tailor-made to inflict misery and suffering on the American people, so they will clamor for more Big Nanny Government to make things "better".
(They of course will never get better, but that doesn't matter for Democrats, because there will be plenty of cushy government jobs for white women with short purple hair and degrees in genderqueer literary theory from Williams College.)
"Why the constant gendering of the law and order interest?"
Left wing rules. We didn't make 'em. NYT was famous for couching every looming disaster as "women and minorities hardest hit." James Taranto had a running joke reference to it.
"He knows women want to feel protected and men want to feel that women are protected." It's not that we "want to feel that women are protected". It's that we want to feel our fingers crushing the throats of the dirty, rotten sons-of-bitches who raped and murdered Jocelyn Nungaray, and Laken Riley, and Molly Tibbets, and ....
Dems invented the "for the children" card so they should not be surprised the Trump administration uses a similar tactic.
Here, Althouse. A tortured, raped and murdered boy, for your delectation. Feel better now?
I'm still a bit puzzled. Is it now the position of feminists that men torturing, raping and murdering women and girls is "somewhat concerning, but not a major issue"? Is this maybe connected to the "men-have-a-right-to-be-in-women's-bathrooms" insanity? Is it OK to torture, rape and murder women and girls now, as long as you use the right pronouns? Or are in the wrong country? Did I miss a memo?
Did we figure out what a woman is, at least, then?
Is it OK to torture, rape and murder women and girls now, as long as you use the right pronouns?
Pronouns, and skin color. From time to time we hear stories of white female ethnomasochist do-gooders who are brutally raped and beaten and murdered by the Haitians or South Africans or home-grown ghetto rats they are treating as wayward pets, but they (or their survivors) refuse to cooperate with the police because "he was forced to do it by white racism."
Did I watch a different video. I didn't hear a "weave" as he stuck to his topic and I didn't hear "women and children" during the first several minutes.
I also don't feel my emasculation looming because, as Bob Boyd said, there is a monopoly on the use of force and currently that monopoly is run by a bad ass woman.
We're stronger and more confident in our masculinity than you credit.
If you read just one account of one of these vicious crimes, and you can still maintain concern for the victimizer, you've lost something important, and you need to get it back.
By the way, the correct term is sexing, not gendering.
Miller is so much smarter than any journalist out there it's not even funny anymore
I like that guy.
Jupiter, I didn't leave feminism. Feminism left me.
But while I was there, I helped expunge language from our state's sex crime laws so they would apply equally to male victims. I couldn't imagine doing anything less. There once were equality feminists who believed in such things, even some who were pro-life, even some who believed in single-sex education. They were purged long ago.
The brutality and incompetence involved in the level of crimes that the American government has committed against Abrego Garcia as well as ignoring a Supreme Court order is terrifying.
Garcia was here illegally. All that other shit doesn't matter.
Toss his ass.
At least he has his priorities straight.
Tina, I'm not sure it's accurate to say that feminism has taken any particular trajectory. Feminism apparently has "waves". They wash up the beach, and hang around for a while, and recede, and then a new wave washes over us. Individual feminists mostly get to have whatever views they like, although the trans BS has introduced some conflict.
Man-hating Lesbians on Harleys, fetching Southern debutantes in flowered dresses. Bella Abzug, Emily Ratajkowski. All feminists in good standing.
Feminine gender politics? Excess murder, rape, and torture. #MeTwo?
Stephen Miller goes into a long Trumpish "weave," and the reporters don't turn and walk away.
To be fair, they never got up and walked away from the last administration's historic black spokeslesbian, so...
At 10:16 Miller lays down the gauntlet. Half a million children were trafficked into this country and the Biden administration encouraged, enabled, and facilitated it. The Democrat Party is a criminal organization involved in the most despicable, evil crimes. America needs a Nuremberg trial for these Party members responsible. Arrests, trials, imprisonments, and executions.
This is not a weave -- a weave is diversion from the point and circling back after a long and circuitous route. Repetition which is employed by Miller is a very important learning tool and Miller stays on message. People need to be reminded that the purpose of our government's deportation policy and actions is to keep people safe, especially people who are the most vulnerable, women and children. Is that gender politics or just the reality of human beings in physical bodies? This is necessary because of the opposite agenda of the media whose purpose is to promote the Democrat party.
The Democrat aligned media would have us believe that Trump's entire purpose is to destroy democracy, end liberty, and return to white supremacism. They might have a case if there were no negative effects from allowing criminals to invade and infiltrate our country and set up shop. That's why people have to be reminded of what is happening. Just because the media refuses to discuss human trafficking in the US does not mean it is nonexistent or minimal. Far from it. There are tens of thousands of confirmed cases of people who are being trafficked in the US, iow modern day slavery, not to mention 500K children who have "vanished." MS 13 plays a significant role in organizing human trafficking, especially of women and girls for "commercial sex" with the proceeds funneled back to Central America. If it seems that Miller is making too much of a big deal about this it's because the media is not making enough of a big deal about it.
Ann, your title suggests that the reporters deserve some sort of medal for being willing to stomach listening to Miller. I suggest that the credit for patience should actually be given to Miller.
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