Stephen Miller Declares Trump Admin Pushing to De-Bank Illegal Immigrants

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said President Donald Trump’s administration will be pushing to de-bank illegal immigrants — a move he said will be a “major driver of self-deportation.”

Miller talked about the plan during a Friday radio interview on Clay Travis and Buck Sexton’s show.

“Contrary to popular perception, you know this stupid phrase that ‘illegal aliens live in the shadows’ — illegal aliens don’t live in the shadows,” Miller said. “Illegal aliens have credit cards, they have bank accounts, and they’re paid with direct deposits. So illegal aliens fully participate in the commercial system, the financial systems of America.”

The longtime Trump adviser pointed to a May executive order that called for banks to cancel accounts for illegal immigrants. The executive order said banking and lending to illegal immigrants “undermines the safety and soundness of the national banking system.”

Miller said the administration has “begun in earnest” its push to enforce the order, and would soon be meeting with individual banks to demand illegal immigrants are booted.

“Shutting that down is a massive engine for deportation,” Miller said, before adding a moment later, “Once illegal aliens lose their access to capital, that is going to again, be a major driver of self-deportation.”

Miller has been the prime architect of Trump’s deportation plan during his first and second terms. His fixation on removing illegal immigrants even led Trump to quip in a 2024 campaign meeting “if it were left to Miller, there would be only 100 million people in the United States and they would all look like Stephen Miller,” according to The New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman.

Miller on Friday told the conservative hosts if it all goes according to plan, de-banking will “dramatically” boost the number of people removed from the States.

Watch above.

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