Stephen Miller is the man (using the term loosely) who managed to come up with a border policy in which they took kids from their parents. The plan was so abominable that even the Trump administration had to reverse it in three weeks. They wanted to do it. It was the ultimate deterrent. But they just couldn’t withstand the blowback, and there was already talk that by taking kids from their parents (without any real system to return them), the Trump administration could actually be charged with crimes against humanity.

So it’s awfully rich to hear Stephen Miller pretend to care about immigrants on the border.

The border is a mess right now because of continued civil wars in Central America, and, in case no one’s noticed, the United States is hiring. There are two jobs for every applicant in the U.S. right now. The American economy created over a half million jobs in one month last month. Immigrants are needed. They know they’re needed. There are jobs here. It is a matter of processing immigrants legally that is a mess.

It could be streamlined and made sensible with a new immigration bill at any point, but we’re long past the point in time when we had a functioning Congress. So Stephen Miller did what MAGAs do and went on Fox and accused the Biden administration of doing what Miller did, committing crimes against humanity, bringing eternal shame upon the United States, and creating an abomination:

“The decision to terminate President Trump’s hugely successful border controls is a crime against humanity,” Miller told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “And my plea to every single member of Congress on the Republican side of the aisle is raise holy hell about what’s happening on our border.”

He added: “This administration deserves to lose not only a record number of seats in the House and the Senate over this border crisis but the eternal shame of history! For what they have done has no precedent. It is an abomination.”

During his time in the White House, Miller pursued harsh immigration policies that separated children from their families. Activists have called for the International Criminal Court to charge Miller with crimes against humanity for his role.

What a monster.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman