Nick Miroff

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Radio Atlantic · What We Know About the Recent ICE Killings · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

were telling him that it would make him look weak.

And it's kind of saying similar things to what they said after Minneapolis was that, you know, they're giving in to protesters, to the radical left, that they can't back down from the mass deportation campaign that Trump has promised.

And, you know, clearly they broke through to him and he has reversed course.

Now,

You know, what we're still seeing is that some kind of new guidance is coming to ICE officers that is going to try to introduce some additional safeguards into these vehicle stops.

But it also shows that the president is very sensitive to criticism from his base about any perceived, you know, backtracking on this deportation campaign.

I was telling that on Wednesday, senior administration officials were really throwing Mullen under the bus on this one and saying that he hadn't cleared this vehicle stop order with the White House.

But, you know, these are I also spoke to people in the department who said it was, you know, that was impossible, that that it's there's no way this kind of order would have gone forward without people, including, you know, Tom Homan and Stephen Miller from from being aware that that they were that they were that it was coming.

Well, Mullen came in to replace Kristi Noem, who, along with her top advisor, Corey Lewandowski, ran the department in a very different way and made a lot of enemies there.

generated a lot of controversy and ultimately were removed because of the perception that she was trying to promote her own career, her own interests, and had just become too much of a liability for the White House in a way that was undermining the president's broader immigration enforcement goals.

Mullen was brought in, I think, to stabilize the department, to bring a kind of a sunnier presence while still being somebody who was close to the president and intensely loyal to Trump and who would carry out the campaign with a better face, so to speak.

But their goal has been to carry out the president's mass deportation campaign, but more quietly and with less controversy.

And I think that they had been relatively effective in doing that up until these shootings.

But it really shows the inherent tension in what they're trying to do.

They're trying to carry out this incredibly disruptive, intrusive, controversial campaign

you know, deportation campaign in American cities and communities.

And there's just no way it's going to be quiet and that people aren't going to push back.

I think that after the president's response to that order and his fear of looking weak, I think no, you know, they're going to continue pressing forward.

They have the money.

They have the personnel.

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