The Trump administration’s hardline immigration stance has been acquiring vociferous detractors, even from Republicans, particularly after two U.S. citizens, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, were shot dead by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during enforcement operations earlier this year.
Soon after the shooting of Pretti, Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security in the Trump administration, posted on X that the nurse was a “domestic terrorist” who had “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement” agents.
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Mr. Miller’s right-wing positions crystallised early on. Born in Santa Monica, California, in 1985 to Jewish liberal refugee parents, he attended a diverse high school that he came to view as too liberal. A report suggested that his transformation as a hardline conservative was influenced by the book Guns, Crime, and Freedom (1994), written by Wayne LaPierre, a gun rights lobbyist and former chief of the National Rifles Association (NRA).
U.S. agents involved in fatal Minneapolis shooting placed on leave
