Caitlin Dickerson

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Some people do it with a lawyer.

A lot of people don't do it with a lawyer.

But any layman would be confused by some of these questions in these applications that are being filled out.

Sometimes the questions seem to conflict with one another.

You know, one document seems to be putting...

A request one way, another a different way.

And even people who are trying their best will end up with two documents that say two different things.

And it could be very simple, you know, the omission of a middle name or an explanation of why you left the country on the day that you did or why you came.

You know, did you put on one document that you came for work and another that you came to visit family when both were true?

So that is a really powerful pretense or could be a really powerful pretense for, again, clawing legal status back from a lot of people by claiming fraud.

You know, when you're doing an audit on someone's entire life, you can find something.

And even the most upstanding immigrants will tell you there's something on a document that could be used against them.

And so it's

It really isn't just an entree to focusing on the people, whether it's Democratic politicians or immigrants that the administration wants to go after.

Two-prong answer.

So there are some people within the Trump administration, and I would say Stephen Miller is their leader, who want a return to not just a majority white country, which of course we've always been, but one where white American culture is dominant, that we're not so much viewed as a diverse nation of immigrants where different languages and different foods are celebrated, but one that is more purely a white supremacist country.

Then you have people within the administration and Trump, I would consider to be the highest ranking, of course, among them, who've latched onto the subject of immigration because it gives him power.

So when Stephen Miller started working for Donald Trump in his first presidential candidacy, he was a speechwriter that people really weren't sure about until rallies started and until the president started to see the incredibly powerful reaction that he was getting every time he talked about immigration.

And this led to Miller being empowered throughout that campaign all the way up until Trump's first election, which, remember, stunned Trump and his inner circle.