Best of the Daily Blast: Stephen Miller Rages at Low Arrests—and Wrecks a MAGA Scam

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Original air date: July 11, 2025 Stephen Miller recently berated ICE officials in a private meeting, demanding that they hit supercharged new arrest quotas and steamrolling anyone who balked, reports The Atlantic. Yet in a surprise twist, the report also details that Miller’s demands for maximum arrests are driving morale at ICE into the crapper. Importantly, what’s irking ICE agents is precisely that the mission of arresting as many low-level offenders as possible is pulling them away from pursuing serious criminals. This brutally unmasks one of Trump’s biggest scams: It demonstrates clearly that his mass deportations are not at all about public safety and are only about getting as many peaceful and noncriminal immigrants out of the country as possible. We talked to one of our favorite observers on this issue, FWD.us president Todd Schulte. He explains how all this reveals the soft underbelly of Trump’s political strength, why MAGA is now addicted vile memes about shackling immigrants, and what ordinary people can do to effectively resist the coming horrors. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:42.0	Stephen Miller has been privately raging at ICE officials, demanding that they send their agents out to arrest as many day laborers and construction workers as possible, all to get those deportation numbers way, way up. We've all seen the impact all this is having on immigrants and Americans. it's a horror. But behind all of this,
2:02.8	something else is happening. The Atlantic reports in an important piece that morale at ICE is
2:07.7	actually plummeting. And tellingly, a key reason for it is precisely that ICE is now going after
2:13.9	low-level people rather than serious criminals. That's a striking indictment of
2:19.0	Trump-Miller priorities. It's also a very clear sign of just how dark and ugly ICE's law
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