Running the deportation machine
Without deportation you have no borders, no nation, no territory, no security, no sovereignty, and no future.
As Deputy Chief of Staff · 2025
When ICE arrests fell short of what he wanted, he berated the agency's leaders and ordered them to hit 3,000 a day, roughly triple the pace agents had been managing, wide enough to sweep up long-settled residents, parents, and students. Because millions of people live in mixed-status families, mass deportation is mass family separation by design; one estimate put the number of U.S.-citizen children affected at 4.4 million.
Sources: France 24 · Fox News: Miller confirms the 3,000-a-day goal
The vision, in Trump's own words
Only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller.
Trump, describing what would content Miller · reported by The New York Times
Miller was the architect of the first term's family-separation policy, which took thousands of children from their parents at the border, the "Muslim ban," and the repeal of DACA. He has described his plans for mass detention and daily deportation flights as greater than any infrastructure project in the nation's history.
Sources: Monocle · France 24