Stephen Miller landed his dream job. How far can he push Trump’s executive power?

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As Stephen Miller moves into the White House chief of staff role, he’s already looking at ways to exert President Donald Trump’s authority in maneuvers ...

As Stephen Miller moves into the White House chief of staff role, he’s already looking at ways to exert President Donald Trump’s authority in maneuvers that bypass Congress.

Since Stephen Miller was a teenager, he has built a reputation as a hard-liner on immigration.

“Everyone and their parents should speak English – or get out of the country,” Mr. Miller used to say at California’s Santa Monica High in the early 2000s, recalled his classmate Kesha Ram – daughter of an Indian immigrant – in an interview with the Monitor in 2019.

Today, Mr. Miller is President Donald Trump’s right-hand man, newly promoted as White House chief of staff in place of the more low-key Susie Wiles. His remit is broad, covering both policy and politics. On policy, he’s tasked with carrying out the president’s “America First” agenda on immigration, tariffs, foreign policy, and cutting the federal workforce.

For a moment after the midterm elections, President Donald Trump seemed poised to compromise with incoming Democrats. The elevation of Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff signals that on immigration and other issues, hard-line policies may remain front and center.

Politically, Mr. Miller is reportedly focused on rebuilding the MAGA brand, after the midterm election rout, and bringing working-class voters, including men and Black and Latino voters, back into the fold. But he remains best known as the architect of Mr. Trump’s aggressive actions on immigration in his first and second terms, involving mass deportations, family separation, and raids by federal officers that, at times, turned deadly.

In a social media post early Thursday, Mr. Trump’s once-regular talk of “caravans,” groups of migrants heading from Mexico toward the U.S. southern border, came roaring back.

“Here we go again!” the president wrote. “... the INVASION of our Country is taking place again.”

For a hot minute, right after the Nov. 3 elections, the possibility of bipartisan cooperation between the Trump White House…

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