"Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. 'You guys aren't doing a good job. You're horrible leaders.' He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down," said the first official, who spoke with those in the room that day. "'Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. 'Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?'" the official recited."
"Miller's staffers disputed this report, but Miller himself confirmed that he had told ICE they needed to triple the daily number of arrests for undocumented immigrants. It wasn't necessary for Miller to spell out the implication that ICE's earlier policy of focusing arrests on people with prior criminal records was going to have to be trashed in favor of more wholesale roundups of populations that may include undocumented immigrants."
Stephen Miller summoned all 50 ICE field directors and angrily criticized their leadership while demanding a tripling of daily arrests of undocumented immigrants. Miller's staff disputed parts of the account, but Miller confirmed the numerical demand. The demand implied abandoning ICE's prior focus on arrests of people with criminal records in favor of broader roundups. In early June, ICE, Border Patrol, and Homeland Security Investigations carried out mass raids across Los Angeles, detaining day laborers at Home Depots and 7-Elevens. Federal forces were deployed to support agents, and a federal judge later ordered respect for Fourth Amendment probable-cause requirements when targeting immigrants.
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