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How Stephen Miller’s Fixation on Minnesota’s Somalis Became a Full-Scale Crackdown

The new White House chief of staff has spent the last year moving the federal government against one community in one state.

Stephen Miller

“It’s like a passion project for him,” one source close to the White House said of Miller’s fraud push. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

By Natalie Alms, Jeff Stein, Paige Winfield Cunningham, Eric Katz and Jasmine Wright

November 6, 2026 03:25 p.m.

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