Hi there, everybody. It's 4 o'clock in New York. There's some brand new reporting in the

Wall Street Journal today. It's truly extraordinary, and it's the kind of reporting that puts a

somewhat disorienting and in some ways blurry picture into very sharp focus.

The new reporting reveals a chain of events that lead up to the standoff in Los Angeles

and reveals that they were sparked by a Trump administration where there are no checks

on the worst autocratic impulses of Donald Trump and his enablers.

Wall Street Journal is reporting that last month,

White House aide Stephen Miller, pushed ICE to round up immigrants off the streets regardless

of whether or not they had committed any crimes or whether or not they were alleged to be gang members.

From that stunning new reporting, quote, federal agents needed to, quote, just go out there and arrest illegal aliens, end quote.

Stephen Miller told top ICE officials who had come from across the U.S. according to people familiar with the meeting.

Agents didn't need to develop targetless of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to

Target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire or 7-11 convenience stores.

Stephen Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C.,

and arrest 30 people right away. In other words, with this new reporting on the Wall of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away.

In other words, what this new reporting in the Wall Street Journal reveals is that Stephen Miller wanted and told ICE to throw out the rules and just grab people off the

streets, at Home Depot, for example.

So this reporting reveals no prioritizing of migrants with criminal records or migrants who could be public safety threats,

which is what border czar Tom Holman continues to claim is the focus and claimed repeatedly

what happened starting on day one of the Trump administration.

It's a process that actually has high levels of public support among all sorts of voters. Instead, they took this other

path at that fork in the road. Miller calling for ICE to just round up people wherever they were,

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