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For those scoring at home, here's the plot arc of the ICE enforcement operation slated to start this weekend: (i) The President preempts the operation by announcing on Twitter that there will be one, thereby surprising ICE officials & forcing them to scramble. 1/
(ii) hasty preparations are made & ICE officers are annoyed & frustrated that Trump has exposed them. Some voice concerns abt their own safety in carrying out the operation given how Trump has made their plans public. 2/
Others worry that the more targeted operation they're trying to plan will fall short of Trump's announcement that "millions" will be arrested. (iii) The Admin calls off the operation because of all the chaos and uncertainty. 3/
(iv) Then, members of Trump Admin insinuate that the head of DHS leaked details of impending raids to the press in order to hobble their execution, even though the WH actively kept him out of the loop on its preparations and messaging around them. (v) Prez blames the Dems. end/
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A few pieces of news from my latest. The lesson of family separation debacle wasn't that govt went too far separating families, an Admin official told me. Rather it was that “we need to be smarter if we want to implement something on this scale” again. 1/ newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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Stephen Miller seen as "walking policy encyclopedia" on immigration. WH politicos defer to him bc they lack context for understanding how one-sided his "expertise" is. He's fluent in his version of the narrative. There are no countervailing facts/perspectives in this Admin. 1/
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Like Miller, Hamilton is young, w thin credentials. Seems inconceivable that a four-star general (even one with pronounced views on stemming immigration) would defer to him. One main reason? Immigration policy is technical. When Kelly started, Hamilton was there w answers. 3/
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