96 m. ago Right back at ya! Trump’s crude but effective rhetorical standby | Chris Taylor

The president has spent the past decade employing a familiar tactic. Accusing protesters of ‘insurrection’ is just the latest exampleDonald Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy – particularly the vindictive kind – spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”. JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.It didn’t escape notice that an insurrection was exactly what the president was accused of instigating on 6 January 2021, when the flag being paraded through the Capitol was that of the Confederate secessionists. And that Trump hadn’t shown quite the same enthusiasm for sending in the troops then.Chris Taylor is a subeditor at the Guardian US and author of The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the ...

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18 h. ago Trump curbs immigration enforcement at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants

The Trump administration has directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement

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26 h. ago Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump

Guardian analysis sharply contradicts president’s claim that officials are targeting ‘criminals’ for deportation from USThe federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency has exponentially increased the arrest and detention of immigrants without any criminal history since the second Trump administration took office, a data analysis by the Guardian shows.The information sharply contradicts Donald Trump’s claims the authorities are targeting “criminals” for deportation as part of his aggressive anti-immigration agenda. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago She was Stephen Miller’s high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts

California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

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68 h. ago She beat Stephen Miller in the race for high school class president. Now she’s fighting his deportation efforts

California attorney is fighting Miller’s mass deportation efforts by working as an immigration lawyer

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3 d. ago Boos, cheers and a heavy dose of irony as Trump takes in Les Mis against backdrop of LA protests

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4 d. ago Stephen Miller meeting with ICE officials was the spark for LA protests and National Guard call

Trump’s anti-immigration architect reportedly told ICE to ‘just go out there and arrest aliens’

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4 d. ago Terry Moran out at ABC News following suspension over Stephen Miller tweet

The network suspended Terry Moran on Sunday after he called Stephen Miller a ‘world-class hater’ on social media

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4 d. ago Correspondent Terry Moran out at ABC News, two days after suspension over Stephen Miller post

Correspondent Terry Moran is out at ABC News, two days after the network suspended him for an online remark that Trump administration deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was a “world-class hater.”

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4 d. ago Trump administration to cut all USAID overseas roles in dramatic restructuring

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4 d. ago Los Angeles protests follow weeks of intensifying immigration enforcement

The Pentagon’s deployment of about 700 Marines to Los Angeles to help the National Guard respond to immigration protests follows weeks of rapid developments in President Donald Trump’s signature domestic priority for mass deportations

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5 d. ago Stephen Miller: the architect of Trump’s hardline immigration policy

White House deputy chief of staff has a blueprint for implementing the president’s signature pledge

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5 d. ago Latinas for Trump founder now condemns White House deportation agenda: ‘Not what we voted for’

Florida Republican says Cuban-refugee parents “are now just as American, if not more so, than Stephen Miller

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5 d. ago Elon Musk's latest stunt to win back Trump as he doubles down on using the military to stop ICE riots in LA

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5 d. ago Elon Musk slaps down salacious claims by his own AI Grok about Trump aide Stephen Miller's wife

Elon Musk has slapped down a salacious claim from his own AI fact checker involving Katie Miller, the wife of top Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller. 

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6 d. ago Musk is forced to correct his own AI after X tool claimed he ‘took’ Stephen Miller’s wife

Musk hired Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller, to work with him as he jump-started DOGE

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6 d. ago Trump's bravado has totally backfired. China has the President right where it wants him

London will today be centre of attention, as representatives have flown in for negotiations to defuse the trade war between the world's two mightiest economic powers.

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6 d. ago ABC suspends journalist for calling Trump and adviser ‘world

Administration officials criticised Terry Moran’s late-night denunciations on X

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6 d. ago ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world

Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent after he described top White House aide Stephen Miller as “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” on social media.In a now deleted post, Terry Moran, who recently conducted an interview with Donald Trump, said that the president and his deputy chief of staff, Miller, were both “world-class” haters. Continue reading...

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