Who is Stephen Miller, architect of Donald Trump's mass deportation plans?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Suddenly, Miller was everywhere Trump was.
64% : "He is very loyal to Trump," said Steven Camarota, who, as director of research at the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies, has known Miller since his days on Capitol Hill.
62% : A CNN exit poll showed voters gave Trump a 9-point advantage over Vice President Kamala Harris on trust to handle immigration.
56% : "Trump recently rewarded Miller with his new title, deputy chief of staff for policy and Homeland Security adviser, setting Miller up to once again leave his mark on the nation's immigration system.
55% : "We're gonna have to seal up those borders," Trump said in his victory speech, "and we're gonna have to let people come into our country.
50% : "At Duke University, Miller made a name for himself as a conservative columnist for the college paper, before graduating and heading to Washington, D.C.He was working as a staffer for then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, when Trump declared his first presidential run.
44% : He joked that the only person who logged more hours with Trump was his chief of staff, Dan Scavino.
38% : On The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show earlier this year, the hosts asked, could Trump really deport millions of people?
32% : "A lot of these ideas have been created on the fringe and are now being dragged into the mainstream by folks like Miller and Trump," said Caleb Kieffer, senior researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has tracked Miller's ties to groups it considers extremist because of their anti-immigrant positions.
32% : "This month's election - which Trump won by nearly 3 million votes at last count - suggests that millions of Americans agree with Trump's tough immigration stance.
27% : And the night of the election, Trump appeared to walk back his harshest campaign rhetoric.
23% : In 2021 Reporter Megyn Kelly asked Miller on her podcast whether he regretted family separation - a policy Trump abruptly ended after a public outcry.
16% : "There is no way Miller is going to push Trump to do something he doesn't really want to do," said Camarota, the researcher.
13% : On the campaign trail for Trump in 2024, Miller often got asked whether Trump could really deport millions of people.

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