Stephen Miller, Trump's new chief of staff, is the architect of his controversial immigration policies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Miller was the architect behind many of those policies and also championed the administration's immigration enforcement expansion, which has been supported by approximately $170 billion that congressional Republicans allocated for immigration enforcement and border security in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which became law in July 2025.
49% : He was a leading supporter of the administration's 2018 zero-tolerance immigration policy, which resulted in thousands of family separations, and he pressed for dramatic reductions in refugee admissions.
48% : Detentions of immigrants without criminal histories rose sharply, and increased ICE activity sparked protests across the country.
41% : The administration repeatedly lowered the annual refugee admissions ceiling, ultimately setting it at 15,000 for fiscal year 2021, a record low at the time.
40% : In May 2025, Miller publicly demanded a dramatic increase in daily arrests, placing pressure on ICE leadership and expanding enforcement beyond immigrants who had been convicted of serious crimes.
39% : The travel ban led to protests around the U.S. and legal challenges.
30% : In Mr. Trump's second term, Miller pushed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to make at least 3,000 immigration arrests per day.

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