MSNBC’s Ari Melber Rips Into Stephen Miller: Tries to Run Gov’t ‘Like a Weapon Against Immigrants’

MSNBC’s Ari Melber ripped White House advisor Stephen Miller (“Donald Trump‘s Donald Trump”) tonight over the harsh immigration policy he has pushed for during his tenure in the Trump administration.

He brought up a comment Miller gave to The New York Times last year over the family separation policy: “It was a simple decision by the administration to have a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry, period. The message is that no one is exempt from immigration law.”

Melber said, “Any nation without open borders will have some limits, but for a taxpayer-funded government employee to defend the human rights violations and the family separation policy as ‘simple,’ as an easy call as a policy, that he likes, even though it’s been rebuked as partly illegal by the courts and inhumane by experts across the spectrum? Let’s be clear. That is chilling.”

He also gave Miller a “civics lesson” after showing a clip from Miller’s 2017 pronouncement that “our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions that the power of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.”

“False,” Melber said. “The president’s powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.”

At one point he brought up how Miller challenged in late 2018 that he’s willing to go anywhere, any time to defend the president. That exchange was about Trump’s dubious claims of voter fraud, but Melber said he’s tried to invite Miller on his show more than once.

“The larger point here is not Mr. Miller’s apparently empty bluster or these televised checks that he writes and cannot cash,” he added. “The larger point is the attempt to run the federal government at times like a weapon against immigrants. To try to run the federal government to build presidential powers that the Constitution forbids.”

You can watch above, via MSNBC.

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