{"id":591,"date":"2026-11-09T21:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2026-11-09T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:30:47","slug":"trump-said-deportation-policies-may-have-been-too-tough-then-he-promoted-stephen-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Trump said deportation policies may have been too tough, then he promoted Stephen Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump acknowledged in a &#x27;60 Minutes&#x27; interview that his immigration policies may have been too tough at times \u2014 then turned around and elevated Stephen Miller, the architect of the administration&#x27;s immigration strategy, to White House chief of staff. The back-to-back moves raised eyebrows, given that Miller has been the driving force behind the administration&#x27;s deportation agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/trump-says-deportation-policies-may-been-too-tough-despite-promoting-stephen-miller\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News \u2014 Trump said deportation policies may have been too tough, then he promoted Stephen Miller<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/09\/opinion\/stephen-miller-roy-cohn-trump.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump acknowledged in a &#x27;60 Minutes&#x27; interview that his immigration policies may have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[561,74,463,277,343],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-j-trump","tag-deportation","tag-immigration","tag-stephen-miller","tag-trump-administration","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}