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30 Oct, 9 tweets, 4 min read
NBC News exclusive: Stephen Miller has big plans for U.S. immigration policy if Trump wins four more years. He told me what they are. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Donald Trump's top four immigration priorities if re-elected, per adviser Stephen Miller:

• New pacts to limit asylum
• Punish and outlaw "sanctuary cities”
• Expand travel ban w/ tougher screening
• New restrictions on work visas

nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
News — Stephen Miller tells me it's unclear if the current U.S. immigration freeze will expire on 12/31/2020 or be renewed. He said that will be "entirely contingent" on governmental analysis that factors in the state of the labor market. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Stephen Miller says Trump’s north vision on immigration will be “raising and enhancing the standard for entry” to the United States. What he describes here is a comprehensive effort to restrict *legal* immigration.

nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
A portion of this immigration agenda that struck me: The U.S. already screens visa applicants for ties to extremist groups. Stephen Miller wants to raise that standard and vet “ideological sympathies or leanings” of people seeking entry. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
PS — One word that never came up in my 30 minutes with Stephen Miller: "wall." It's a catchy applause line at rallies, sure, but the bigger goal for hardliners has always been slashing legal immigration. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Biden campaign aide @JenMolina_v responds: "We are going to win this election so that people like Stephen Miller don't get the chance to write more xenophobic policies that dishonor our American values." nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
UPDATE: @JoeBiden responds, blasting this agenda as "four more years of hateful rhetoric and division" representing "cruelty and exclusion" over hope. He says the policies described by Miller aim to "divide our communities with cheap, xenophobic rhetoric." nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Stephen Miller texts this response, unsolicited, after seeing Joe Biden’s criticism of the administration’s second-term immigration agenda:

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29 Oct
NEW from Phoenix: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held dueling rallies 30 miles apart in this swing state.

But it often seemed like they were running in different universes.

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
In one world: Covid is exaggerated, normal life should resume and top issues include the deep state and creeping socialism/communism.

In another world: Covid is crushing pocketbooks, health care access is threatened, and authoritarianism must be stopped.

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26 Oct
The Senate is voting NOW on final confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to be the next Supreme Court justice.

Every Republican votes YES except Susan Collins.

Democrats unanimously vote NO.
Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett, heralding new conservative era for Supreme Court

w/ @JulieNBCNews @RebeccaShabad 👇

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26 Oct
Chuck Schumer: "You may win this vote... But you will never, ever, get your credibility back. And the next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited your right to tell us how to run that majority."
"You walk a perilous road," Schumer tells Republicans ahead of the ACB vote. "I know you think this will eventually blow over. But you're wrong. The American people will never forget this blatant act of bad faith."
On the Senate floor before the ACB vote, Chuck Schumer quotes Mitch McConnell from 2013 saying: "You'll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think."

He adds: "I would change just one word. My colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think."
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26 Oct
President Trump in Allentown, Pennsylvania is going off on Hunter Biden and the "laptop from hell."

"That was a very expensive repair job. He didn't pick it up... And they say it's Russia, Russia, Russia."

Crowd boos.

"Does anybody here believe it was Russia?"

Louder boos.
Trump, in Pennsylvania, says he has "charged" China "billions and billions of dollars in taxes and in all sorts of things, tariffs" and given billions to farmers.

Again, that isn't how trade wars work. The tariffs are paid by businesses and consumers, not China's government.
Trump gives truckers a shout out, muses he could "drive the hell out of here."

"Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life. My life was great. And then I said let's do this, darling!"

Says he's "happy" because "nobody has ever done so much in the first 3 1/2 years."
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26 Oct
NEW: As Amy Coney Barrett heads to confirmation today, Senate Republicans are betting that Democrats won’t retaliate and erase these gains if they win power, despite the campaign rhetoric across the country warning of “court-packing.”

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Mitch McConnell on Amy Coney Barrett: “A lot of what we’ve done over the last four years will be undone, sooner or later, by the next election. But they won’t be able to do much about this for a long time to come.”

nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
Implicit in McConnell’s remarks is that Democrats could win this election and do nothing about the 6-3 Supreme Court. And he may well be right — many Dems are jittery about adding seats. But progressives see it as a dare to call his bluff. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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24 Oct
In Miami, Obama mocks Trump as someone who “likes to act tough and talk tough” but is weak and spends his time complaining how mean reporters are. “When 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl are too tough for you, you ain’t all that tough,” Obama says.
In Miami, Obama mocks Republican claims about Joe Biden and says their rhetoric makes Biden sound like more of a socialist than the Castros. Tells voters to ignore it. Says if he was a “secret socialist” we’d know by now.
Obama: “We don’t threaten to throw our political opponents in jail just because we disagree with them. We don’t call them un-American just because they’re in a different political party... These are American values.”
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