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Eugene

(66,547 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 05:52 PM Sep 30

Stephen Miller Now Wants 'Patriots' to Conduct Green Card Interviews

Source: The Daily Beast

Stephen Miller Now Wants ‘Patriots’ to Conduct Green Card Interviews

Ewan Palmer
Tue, September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM EDT
2 min read

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has issued a call for “patriots” to support the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda by applying for a job with a jumped-up title.

Miller, seen as the architect behind many of Donald Trump’s most severe immigration policies, posted that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is now seeking so-called “homeland defenders”—an unofficial, MAGA-fied version of an immigration services officer, which can have a starting salary of just $34,000 a year.

“Your job will be to interview applicants for green cards, work visas and citizenship for approval or denial,” Miller wrote on X. “Great pay, flexible hours, stay local. Sign up to be a Homeland Defender today!”

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The call included a quote from former President Calvin Coolidge, “Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.”

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stephen-miller-now-wants-patriots-130236777.html

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Irish_Dem

(77,126 posts)
3. Great pay? I thought the US was broke.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 05:59 PM
Sep 30

No money for the government, SS, Medicare, education, science, vaccines, etc.

AZJonnie

(2,028 posts)
5. I would assume this job already exists and the people working it are government employees with decent benefits
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:17 PM
Sep 30

and who must adhere to laws and standards. And the idea is to replace them with compliant MAGA contractors working for Miller directly, at half the cost. If I were guessing

Irish_Dem

(77,126 posts)
7. No they are adding many new personnel and expanding greatly.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:21 PM
Sep 30

The whole immigration war is being funded bigly.

AZJonnie

(2,028 posts)
8. So nobody currently does "green card interviews", this is an entirely new function they're creating?
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 09:33 PM
Sep 30

Seems like there would be but I don't really know how all this works. But yeah, I know the about the many many billions in the Big Bullshit Bill of course.

Irish_Dem

(77,126 posts)
9. Yes there are green card interviews. But the gestapo troops are being expanded.
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 04:41 AM
Oct 1

Congress gave ICE $75 billion in July.

In July 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)receive an additional $75 billion over four years, which includes a dramatic increase for fiscal year (FY) 2025. This new funding significantly boosts the agency's budget for detention and deportation efforts.

sakabatou

(45,473 posts)
6. Well, Miller DOESN'T want to partake in the American spirit; he wants to partake in the Nazi spirit.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 06:18 PM
Sep 30
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