White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller got into a bit of a testy exchange with CNN anchor Pamela Brown when the latter tried to interject fluffy language to describe criminal illegal aliens.

Brown was discussing the case of 54-year-old Ramon Morales Reyes, who was recently arrested over a handwritten note threatening to assassinate President Trump. According to authorities, they are investigating whether Reyes was set up by a person already behind bars.

Despite the shocking development, Reyes, according to a senior DHS official who spoke to the New York Post, "was determined to be in the country illegally and that he had a criminal record."

He will remain in custody due to that record and his illegal status.

Brown questioned Miller on the case, using the flowery descriptor of Reyes as an "undocumented migrant." She also failed to note the Mexican national's criminal record while portraying him in an isolated manner as a "victim of a crime."

Miller wasn't interested in playing games.

.@StephenM roasts @PamelaBrownCNN for using fluffy terminology to describe criminal illegal immigrants: "When we use language that's designed to obscure the truth, that's not good faith. An illegal alien is an illegal alien. They're not an 'undocumented migrant.'" pic.twitter.com/80dVgCSeT1

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025

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"I want to clarify what you mean so we're talking about the same thing," Miller replied. "Are you saying this immigrant was here illegally?"

Brown falsely claimed she had clarified her comments when, in reality, she only altered the phrasing from "undocumented migrant" to "undocumented immigrant."

He is neither of those. With a criminal record, he is most definitely documented. And he is neither a migrant nor an immigrant; he is a criminal illegal alien, regardless of what another criminal may have done to set him up.

"You said undocumented, and I wasn't clear what that means," Miller continued, noting that such a word could assert that he simply had a fake ID.

Brown was disgusted with the retort.

"I want this to be, and call me naive, a good faith discussion about what's happening right now," she countered.

Miller shot back, "When we use language that's designed to obscure the truth, that's not good faith. An illegal alien is an illegal alien. They're not an 'undocumented migrant.'"

How is it possible that Trump administration officials are educating journalists on the fundamental truth regarding terminology differences between a legal and an illegal immigrant? Oh, that's right, because it's intentional - one of the longest ongoing big lies told by the media for decades.

In another contentious segment of the interview, Brown asked Miller if he thinks rogue judges thwarting the Trump administration and, by extension, the will of the American people, should stop doing so, and if so, what "checks and balances" would he find acceptable.

Miller actually broke and laughed at the laughably absurd premise of the question.

.@StephenM cooks @PamelaBrownCNN: "When you have these kinds of lazy assumptions built into questions, it makes it hard to have a constructive dialogue." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/9FG7ldOm8F

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025

Miller does not pull punches. He does not play games. And his knowledge on topics the legacy media is often willing to lie about is admirable. 

Earlier this month, he delivered a masterclass from the White House press briefing room on how to combat the dishonest media, calling them out for refusing to cover illegal immigrant crime in the United States.

"To the extent that you covered it at all, it was because President Trump forced you to cover it by highlighting it repeatedly over and over again. He had to shame you into covering it," Miller excoriated.

"Each and every one of you that sides over and over again with MS-13 terrorists ... choose to live in condos or homes or houses as far away from these kinds of gangbangers as you possibly can."

What are they so afraid of? We thought they were just harmless "undocumented migrants"?

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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