Top Trump Advisor Sparks Outrage with Shocking Post

Stephen Miller, a top Trump immigration advisor and the White House’s deputy chief of staff, is facing backlash after making explosive claims on social media about a 10-year-old Guatemalan orphan he says should be deported.

The controversy erupted after a Trump-supporting account accused a Biden-appointed federal judge of blocking the administration from sending unaccompanied migrant children back to Guatemala—even though the country had agreed to take them. Miller jumped in, posting on X that the reality was “much worse,” accusing Democrats of intentionally keeping “smuggled migrant children” in the U.S.

Miller claimed the children had “all self-reported that their parents are back home in Guatemala” and accused a “Democrat judge” of “refusing to let them reunify with their parents.” He went further, writing, “Their goal is to keep these migrant minors in the USA forever and never let them go home. The Democrat Party is fully committed to the proposition of infinite child trafficking.”

His posts set off a firestorm. Elon Musk responded, calling the situation “insane,” while MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman posted, “Democrats are evil.” But immigration experts and legal analysts were quick to push back, accusing Miller of spreading misinformation.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, shared a sworn declaration from one of the children contradicting Miller’s claims, stating the child’s mother had died and that they fled Guatemala due to abuse and neglect by surviving relatives. “Stephen Miller is a liar,” Reichlin-Melnick wrote. “The child wants to stay and seek protection.”

The uproar comes after U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued an emergency order halting Trump’s plan to deport more than 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan minors over the Labor Day weekend. Advocates argued the administration was sidestepping due-process protections, and the judge admonished government lawyers for attempting to quietly place children on flights “in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.”

The legal battle is the latest roadblock for Miller, who is leading Trump’s aggressive deportation push. Despite ambitious targets, the administration has struggled to meet its goal of 3,000 removals a day as it attempts to carry out what Miller calls “the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.”