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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Stephen Miller’s apparent sidelining by Donald Trump is a deliberate ruse to allow him to secretly retain his iron grip on immigration policy, senior administration officials have told PunchUp . The deputy White House chief of staff, 40, was reported earlier this week to have been frozen out of major Department of Homeland Security calls after he dragged the president, 79, into politically toxic territory by branding Alex Pretti—the 37-year-old VA ICU nurse blasted to death by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 24—a “domestic terrorist.” Trump’s hardline immigration adviser had, The Atlantic reported , been replaced with his border czar Tom Homan, 64, and long-standing CBP commissioner Rodney Scott as the officials whom the new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was consulting ahead of Miller. Miller has made far fewer appearances on TV since, whereas before he was a regular, the report also noted. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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