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Stephen Miller isn't an elected official, but there are few people with more power in America today.

Here's President Trump speaking to reporters at the White House last October.

As the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and one of President Trump's longest-serving aides, Miller's been the driving force behind many of Trump's core policies —

He's known for having extreme views, even by the president's own standards.

Miller is the architect of Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown.

He's pushed for a narrowing of legal immigration pathways and led the push in ICE recruitment and deployment.

And he's been in the spotlight recently as a driving force behind the plan to capture Venezuela's leader, Nicolas Maduro.

In a much-circulated interview this week with CNN, Miller said we live in a world, quote, governed by strength and force, and also asserted that Greenland should be part of the United States.