Luis Miranda

Personal account. Ex White House aide, ex DHS spox, ex DNC Comms Director, 5 presidential campaigns. Tweets are my own.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

“You’ve now just corrupted the whole discipline.” -- Trump's former principal deputy DNI on his appointment of @pulte as acting DNI

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[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Secretary Mullin claims that over 200,000 H-1B workers have paid the illegal $100,000 tax on H-1B petitions. That'd be a staggering $20 BILLION in revenue in 6 months! But there's no way it's true. DOJ has said in court filings that H-1B fee revenue is way, way down!

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

Scoop confirmed — Trump admin moving to buy up some privately run ICE facilities from GEO Group/CoreCivic

Tom Homan on Fox last night confirmed what senior administration officials have told me since March: ICE is looking to buy up privately owned immigrant detention sites in order to get around having to comply with local/state regulations and have control over the property amid protests/riots.

“We need to own more of these facilities when we operate them on federal land, and then that way we're not dealing with all this crap from the local politicians in the state and the governors, because this is a federal site on federal land, that's that's the direction we need to go to, and that's the direction we're heading in.”

STORY: https://t.co/aoRGf3KEB1

[Hamed Aleaziz @Haleaziz]

DHS memo obtained by the Times shows the top lawyer of the agency assuring agents that they were “not legally required to comply with state and local mask prohibitions while carrying out their official duties.”

https://t.co/QgLugPBDYB

[Luis Miranda @LuisMiranda]

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[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Many of these people were in the United States for 30-40 years. Because Cuba didn’t take deportations for half a century, they were able to live here despite removal orders issued decades in the past. Then they were suddenly called in by ICE, handcuffed, and dumped in Mexico.

[Elina Shirazi @elinashirazi]

EXCLUSIVE: Markwayne Mullin is inquiring about a Special Government Employee (SGE) designation for his wife at Homeland Security. It's the same status Kristi Noem used for Corey Lewandowski. @DailyMail @Daily_MailUS

PLUS, we reveal his jet-set escapes - including one very important night.

READ HERE: https://t.co/jLTCJQMDSQ

[Joshua Goodman @APjoshgoodman]

NEW: The Trump administration has quietly instructed prosecutors in Miami to avoid criminally investigating Venezuela’s acting President @delcyrodriguezv, a longtime target of the DEA, in the latest sign of warming relations with the oil-rich nation.
https://t.co/mSX5PFUMBC

[Sam Stein @samstein]

ICE pepper sprayed a US Senator today (@AndyKimNJ)

https://t.co/6K1Ov14HVU

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Barney Frank was one of a kind. For more than three decades in Congress, he fought tirelessly for the people of Massachusetts, helped make housing more affordable, stood up for the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, and helped pass one of the most sweeping financial reforms in history designed to protect consumers and prevent another financial crisis. Barney’s passion and wit were second to none, and our thoughts are with his family today.

[alex @ajhoward121]

Mayorkas didn’t set immigration policy in a vacuum. He inherited a system Congress hasn’t meaningfully updated since 1996, and he ran a department whose authorities are capped by statute. The “low bar” for credible fear he referenced? That’s the law.

[Luis Miranda @LuisMiranda]

2024? Mayorkas should read memo he signed in April '22. Surged resources, stood up coordination center, improved efficiency, & summer '24 EO built on a tightening of asylum screening begun in 2023. Convenient to criticize Biden but oversimplification https://t.co/KwPKmflxc9

[POLITICO @politico]

Mayorkas: Biden administration should have ramped up border controls sooner https://t.co/TRmzMN7Okg

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

See How Trump’s Accounts Were Busy Trading Big Tech Stocks https://t.co/SQb8ddM0tt

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

NEW: ICE Spent More In January Than NASA Gets All Year https://t.co/bwKw6oRQt0

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

SCOOP: Paramount leadership has had informal discussions about changing Bari Weiss’s mandate at CBS News (and, eventually, CNN) in ways that would give her less control over TV.

New tonight at @PuckNews: https://t.co/SRvm2zX4iD

[POLITICO @politico]

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says the state needs to move on redistricting.

“We don’t have a choice but to act, particularly when we’re watching the greatest assault on Black voter representation ... that we have seen in generations," he tells our @jmart.

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[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE:

Kash Patel's FBI has imposed new policies that inflate the number of arrests made during his tenure and overstate the bureau's progress in stemming crime, according to a half dozen law enforcement sources with knowledge of the changes. https://t.co/fkl7k3eVLf

[Sam Stein @samstein]

So, in other words, if you paid enough to sponsor Sec. Duffy's reality show, you could get coveted access to Duffy. This used to be the stuff of scandal

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