The policy of rendering undocumented immigrants to prisons in third countries without due process—upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court this week—and the Justice Department’s pressuring the University of Virginia to fire its president for salvaging DEI both have the mark of the satanic Stephen Miller.
Deputy Chief Adviser Miller has been called “Trump’s brain.” Not yet 40, he was a child prodigy of hatred, honing his xenophobia, racism, and doublespeak in the Duke University newspaper. His first column, in 2006, excoriated the university’s then-president for allowing a conference on campus hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which Miller accused of supporting Hamas, and for inviting the Black poet Maya Angelou to give the school’s orientation speech. He called for ideological “diversity”(achieved by ceasing to hire and tenure progressive professors) and attacked “multiculturalism (aka segregation).”
Miller is Trump’s Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the administration’s mass deportation and of the policy’s intentional cruelty. The family separations carried out in the first term—mothers taken from nursing babies, children locked in cages—were his. ICE’s exorbitant daily quota of 3,000 arrests, its indiscriminate roundups and Gestapo-like style are reflections of Miller’s ideology and personality. According to Forbes, it was likely his dressing-down of ICE officials for their failure to meet the quotas that spurred the radical escalation of ICE tactics in LA, which sparked the protests that Trump sent in the Marines to put down.
While the president keeps insisting that the government is going after only criminals, Miller’s stated goal is to arrest everyone living in the U.S. without papers, including those working toward legal status. The Guardian reported Tuesday that in mid-June more than 11,700 people were being held in immigration detention who had never been charged or convicted of a crime—a 1,271 percent increase from data released right before Trump’s second term began.
And now it turns out that Miller is profiting from the terror and misery of immigrant communities throughout the U.S. and the hopelessness of would-be refugees and asylum seekers the world over.
According to a new report from the nonprofit government watchdog Project on Government Oversight, or POGO, Miller owns a quarter-million-dollar—and rising—stake in the data analytics company Palantir. From his financial disclosure, POGO gleans that Miller began investing in Palentir when the first Trump term ended, after which he “meticulously planned for an unprecedented increase in immigration enforcement” in hopes of another term.
Mass deportation requires mass data collection and analysis. Enter: Palentir. According to The New York Times, the company has received more than $113 million in federal spending and anticipates at least $795 million more. It is the S&P 500’s highest-performing company this year, with its stock price up more than 80 percent in 2025 so far.
The president called Miller “a terrific person” and said the two “have a great understanding.” In addition to the sophistication and zeal in fascist policymaking, Trump no doubt admires his consigliere’s skill in using the government to enrich himself.