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‘Total Nonsense’: Stephen Miller Blasted Over ‘Wonders’ of Life ‘When Illegals Are Gone’
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is once again touting the “wonders” he says Americans can expect if President Donald Trump carries out plans to deport most or all undocumented immigrants from the United States.
Miller, who has promoted white nationalist rhetoric and was the architect of Trump’s family separation policy during the first administration, is once again driving an unrelenting immigration policy that Trump has called “the single largest mass deportation program in history.” It could cost well over one hundred billion dollars.
“Do you have any idea how many resources will be opened up for Americans when the illegals are gone?” Miller posited Wednesday night on Fox News (video below).
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“No more waiting on line at an emergency room? No more massive traffic in Los Angeles? Your health insurance premiums go down. Your public school classroom size will shrink dramatically—they have more time to educate every student,” he claimed.
“You won’t have to compete for public benefits. If you’re hard—if you’re down on your luck, you’re having a hard time, and you do need to get support from the government, you’re not going to be in line on millions of illegal aliens from the third world,” he alleged.
“This is gonna be such a gift to the quality of life of everyday Americans,” Miller insisted, ignoring certain obvious facts.
“It’s hard to even express the wonders that wait for working people.”
Some of Miller’s claims don’t necessarily add up.
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Suggesting a large percentage of emergency room patients are undocumented is inaccurate—undocumented immigrants are often too afraid to use emergency rooms.
There are few reliable statistics to prove removing undocumented immigrants would end “massive traffic in Los Angeles.”
Reducing the number of students in a classroom can reduce the amount of funds the school receives from the state and, under certain circumstances, from the federal government.
Claiming that if you’re “down on your luck,” accessing benefits would be easier by reducing the number of undocumented immigrants also does not add up: undocumented immigrants are largely ineligible for federal benefits.
In an analysis last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Congressional Budget Office actually projected a major fiscal benefit from recent undocumented immigrants: $897 billion through 2034.
“That’s roughly $3,500 per American adult—a figure economists should be shouting from the rooftops,” Michael Clemens, a professor of economics at George Mason University, told the Journal.
Critics pushed back on Miller’s remarks.
Attorney and senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, wrote: “‘Your children will have their classmates and friends deported and that’s good’ is quite the argument. Of course, all of this is total nonsense. There are lines in emergency rooms in communities with few undocumented immigrants and traffic in LA has always been bad.”
Refugees International President Jeremy Konyndyk observed: “Brexiteers made the same sort of claims about freeing up resources – and now the UK economy is lagging and they can’t staff their health system. But look, @StephenM isn’t dumb enough to think any of this is true. He just assumes you are.”
Retired nursing professor Mary Chesney added: “You know who is going to be waiting in line? Families waiting for home care for elders, people waiting for nursing home placement, and the families on waiting lists for childcare now that Mr. Miller & his goons are rounding up nursing assistants and child care workers.”
Attorney John Oleske wrote: “This is *exactly* the kind of thing the Nazis said would be good about getting rid of the Jews. Sadly, I do not expect any MSM to report that basic, salient fact.”
Watch the video below or at this link.
Miller: You have any idea how many resources will be opened up for Americans when the illegals are gone? No more waiting in line at an emergency room, no more massive traffic in Los Angeles. Your health insurance premiums go down, your public school classroom size will shrink… pic.twitter.com/2iMFygYhOk
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 17, 2025
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Maine Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner is under fire after releasing a video declaring that new allegations against him are false, yet he is “taking time to reflect” on a path forward.
Politico on Monday afternoon reported that a woman who dated Platner, Jenny Racicot, “says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.”
“Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner,” Politico reported, “for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.”
In a video posted to social media eleven minutes after the Politico story dropped, Platner says, “I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious, and false allegations against me. Any accusation of nonconsensual behavior is categorically false.”
He said he and his supporters “were united in a love of Maine, a belief that our politics must change, in a focus on defeating Susan Collins.”
“So, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful the political reality will inflict, we are taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.”
“Those were the goals when we launched this campaign. And they remain my goals today.”
“Throughout it all, you never turned your back on me. And I will not turn my back on you now. Every one of you deserves to see that vision come to fruition and see Susan Collins defeated. And we will use every tool at our disposal to do so.”
The Bulwark’s Tim Miller, a political commentator who served as the communications director for the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign, blasted Platner.
“I’m sorry but ‘we are taking time to reflect on the best path forward’ is not an option on the table,” Miller wrote. “Either it’s false and you campaign with vigor or it’s true and you get out / apologize to everyone you let down.”
Journalist Ryan Grim, commenting on Platner’s video, noted that Platner “strongly suggests he is considering dropping out. Already Troy Jackson and Chellie Pingree, both gubernatorial candidates, are being kicked around in Maine circles as potential replacements.”
Several others, including Puck News’ Peter Hamby, predicted Platner will be dropping out.
Platner had postponed several campaign events before the Politico story was published.
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) July 6, 2026
President Donald Trump is facing backlash after posting a video of children — including showing their unblurred faces — graduating from kindergarten, with some of the girls purportedly wearing hijabs.
“President Trump posted a captionless video of graduating kindergarteners on Truth Social on Monday, goading his supporters into verbally attacking little children simply for being Muslim,” The New Republic reported. “The clip is from Gateway STEM Academy, a majority-Black K-8 public charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota. It shows about 21 children in caps and gowns on stage singing a song together. Most of the girls are wearing hijabs.”
The original post of the video which Trump reposted reads: “Public school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every girl is in a hijab … in kindergarten.”
Trump did not add any comments. TNR called the post “Islamophobic, weird, and creepy,” while noting that the comments section of Trump’s post was filled with calls “by racist, xenophobic MAGA supporters” to “deport the children and ban hijabs.”
TNR also noted that it “should come as no surprise that Trump isn’t above attacking children who just learned how to read, but this post is still particularly discomforting—and will certainly contribute to the already potent level of anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S. and in Minnesota.”
Critics blasted Trump.
“There is something deeply unsettling about the president of the United States—the most powerful person in the world—going after kindergarten schoolchildren in Minnesota because they wore hijabs, as Trump has done this morning on his website,” The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote.
One social media commentator wrote, “Trump posted an unblurred video of more than a dozen Muslim kindergartners to Truth Social, exposing the children’s faces while targeting them for their religion.”
Another added, “Trump is a bigot. The president took to Truth Social to attack kindergarteners in hijabs. These are little kids. The president isn’t just a bigot, he’s also a coward.”
The original video was posted to the X social media platform in June.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) at the time commented, “If you are in a public school in America, you should be speaking english.”
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President Donald Trump’s apparent efforts to delay releasing the $5.8 million civil judgment to E. Jean Carroll are being met with a warning by the journalist’s legal team, who suggest there could be a legal maneuver for Trump to employ to forgo paying the judgment in either of the two cases he lost.
According to The Guardian, on July 4, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to release the $5.8 million judgment, which is in escrow, to Carroll by this coming Tuesday — or explain why he would not do so.
Carroll’s attorneys think Trump may be trying to buy time to mount another legal strategy, telling the judge that Trump’s request for an extension “appears to be little more than yet another play for time.”
“The case is separate from Trump’s appeal of a Manhattan civil jury’s 2024 award of $83.3m to Carroll for defamation,” The Guardian explains. “But her lawyers have suggested a legal scenario in which the president might seek to conjoin the cases and further delay payment of both.”
Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan (no relation to the judge) wrote, “We can only assume that defendant is seeking … to buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis to put off paying plaintiff presumably in connection with his forthcoming petition and motion for a rehearing.”
Trump’s former attorney, Justin Smith, in one of his final acts, wrote to the Supreme Court suggesting that his client would be appealing the $83.3 million civil judgment.
Smith argued that the Supreme Court “may wish to consider the petitions together,” given they involve the same parties.
The larger judgment case involves possible questions of presidential immunity, and that has Carroll’s attorneys concerned.
“A conjoined case, Carroll’s lawyers fear, could result in both judgments being wiped out,” The Guardian reports.
The president has also made clear he is no fan of Judge Kaplan, after the jurist made several rulings that “angered” Trump.
“What else can you expect from a Trump Hating, Clinton appointed judge, who went out of his way to make sure that the result was as negative as it could possible be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in 2023, “speaking to, and in control of, a jury from an anti-Trump area which is probably the worst place in the US for me to get a fair ‘trial’.”
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