Stephen Miller 'Enjoys' Seeing Separated Kids At Border: Report

WASHINGTON, DC -- The national controversy that has erupted over immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border due to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' "zero-tolerance" policy has caused huge political headaches for many in D.C. But there is one person who may be enjoying the chaos: White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller, according to a report.

Vanity Fair quoted an "outside White House adviser" as saying that "Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border. ... He's a twisted guy, the way he was raised and picked on. There's always been a way he's gone about this. He's Waffen-SS."

Trump has not backed down on the issue, arguing that Democrats need to vote with Republicans to fund the border wall first before he will lift the policy. That has led to accusations that the White House is using the children as leverage.

Vanity Fair reports that the issue is weighing heavy on Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had already been reportedly looking for an exit months from now. The report quoted a friend of hers as saying that she was "tired of taking on water for something she doesn't believe in."

Miller, who is quickly becoming the face of the crisis, is himself the product of immigration. His mother's family sought asylum in the United States back in the early 1900s from Belarus to escape anti-Jewish persecution in Russia.

He was raised in a liberal family, but was converted to conservatism by a 1994 book by the National Rifle Association's former CEO Wayne LaPierre titled Guns, Crime, and Freedom.

While attending Santa Monica High School in the early 2000s, he quickly earned a notorious reputation. He reportedly harassed Latino students, telling them to speak English. He said in a letter to the editor shortly after 9/11 that "Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School." And he gave a speech that was captured on video that many considered racially offensive. Later, he would collaborate with white nationalist Richard Spencer while attending Duke University (although he later said he repudiated Spencer's views).

Today, he has been identified in numerous reports as the chief architect of the Trump administration's move to separate migrant children from their parents.

“No nation can have the policy that whole classes of people are immune from immigration law or enforcement,” Miller said in a recent interview with the New York Times. “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.”

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