斯蒂芬·米勒被广泛认为是唐纳德·特朗普总统激进移民驱逐行动的设计师，这些行动让蒙面联邦特工深入社区，导致致命冲突。
Stephen Miller is widely known as the architect of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration deportation operations that have sent masked federal agents into neighborhoods, resulting in deadly confrontations.
但也有广泛报道称，这位总统新任命的幕僚长曾是特朗普在加勒比海和太平洋对所谓贩毒船只实施致命打击的主要推手。
But it has also been widely reported that the president’s newly minted chief of staff was a driving force behind Trump’s deadly strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific.
一名前美国官员告诉《华盛顿邮报》，米勒主导起草了一份由特朗普签署的机密指令，授权美军对两打被总统指定为“外国恐怖组织”的外国犯罪集团使用致命武力。法律专家表示，将犯罪集团宣布为恐怖组织在法律上毫无依据，但政府辩称这些集团利用毒品作为武器杀害美国人。
Miller steered the drafting of a classified directive signed by Trump that authorized the U.S. military to use lethal force against two dozen foreign criminal groups the president had designated “foreign terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. official told The Washington Post. Legal experts say that declaring criminal groups terrorist organizations has no basis in law, but the administration argued that the groups used narcotics as a weapon to kill Americans.
《华盛顿邮报》去年报道，米勒最初提议由中央情报局实施致命打击，但该机构及政府其他部门的律师对其合法性提出质疑。决策者最终决定改由五角大楼执行打击任务。
Miller also initially proposed having the CIA conduct lethal strikes, but lawyers in the agency and other parts of the government questioned its legality, The Washington Post reported last year. Policymakers eventually decided to have the Pentagon carry out the strikes instead.
最初作为向时任委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗施压行动一部分而开始的打击——马杜罗于1月被美国抓获——已持续一年多，据美军数据显示，共实施71次打击，造成236人死亡。近几个月来，美国一直在与厄瓜多尔等国合作，拦截疑似“毒品恐怖分子”船只。
Strikes that started as part of an operation to pressure then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — who was captured by the U.S. in January — have continued for over a year with 236 people killed in 71 strikes, according to U.S. military figures. In recent months, the U.S. has been collaborating with countries like Ecuador to interdict suspected narco-terrorist vessels.
法律团体称这些船只打击属于非法，并谴责米勒晋升为白宫幕僚长。
Legal groups say the boat strikes are illegal and condemned Miller’s promotion to White House chief of staff.
宪法权利中心法律总监巴赫尔·阿兹米批评了米勒据报在船只打击中扮演的角色；该非营利组织已提起诉讼，要求公开政府为船只打击提供正当性的法律备忘录。
Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit group that has filed a lawsuit to make public the administration’s legal memo justifying the boat strikes, criticized Miller’s reported role in the boat strikes.
“公开报道显示，毫不意外的是，米勒是政府政策的关键设计者，该政策以我们与贩毒者处于‘战争’状态这一荒谬借口为由，以在国际水域针对并杀害平民为目标，”阿兹米告诉《MS NOW》。“这种毫无法律约束的纯粹谋杀项目，与他另一个最喜欢的项目如出一辙，即在我们的城市部署军事化的ICE民兵，对人们进行剖析、惩罚和杀害。他对我们宪法的彻底拒绝不会长久；他将被追究责任。”一位白宫发言人赞扬了米勒及其任命。
“Public reporting reveals, unsurprisingly, that Miller was a key architect of the administration’s policy to target and kill civilians in international waters on the preposterous pretext that we are at ‘war’ with drug smugglers,” Azmy told MS NOW. “This lawless project of unadulterated murder, is not unlike his favorite other project to deploy militarized ICE militia in our cities to profile, punish and kill people. His abject rejection of our constitution will not last; he will be held accountable.”A White House spokeswoman praised Miller and his appointment.
“从第一天起，斯蒂芬·米勒就是特朗普总统‘美国优先’议程的关键推手，”劳伦·比斯告诉《MS NOW》。“他主导了政府的打击犯罪行动，包括在华盛顿特区和孟菲斯，创纪录的放松管制，释放了美国能源，瓦解了贩毒集团，并保卫了我们的边境。在他的新职位上，他将继续为美国人民带来历史性的成功。”前中央情报局高级官员、《MS NOW》撰稿人马克·波利梅罗普洛斯表示，如果属实，米勒利用中央情报局打击涉嫌贩毒船只的提议将为该机构制造“噩梦场景”。
“Stephen Miller has been a key player in delivering on President Trump’s America First agenda since day one,” Lauren Bis told MS NOW. “He has spearheaded the administration’s crime crackdown including in D.C. and Memphis, record setting deregulation, unleashed American energy, dismantled drug cartels, and secured our border. In his new role, he will continue to deliver historic successes for the American people.”Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior CIA official and MS NOW contributor, said Miller’s proposal to use the CIA to attack alleged drug boats, if true, would have created a “nightmare scenario” for the agency.
“米勒这种高度党派化的政治人物，大概看到了中情局在全球反恐战争中取得的成功，并可能想在西半球复制这一成功，这是他自己的宠儿项目，”他说。“然而，这是一个完全不同的目标集合，几乎肯定充满了法律疑问，这将使局官员陷入严重的法律危险。”前司法部雇员倡导组织“司法连线”的执行董事斯泰西·杨指责米勒无视法律，并施压司法部官员进行报复性起诉。
“A highly partisan political type such as Miller would have seen the success that the CIA had in the global war on terror and probably wanted to replicate that in the Western Hemisphere, his own pet project,” he said. “Yet it was an entirely different target set, almost certainly rife with legal question marks, that would have placed agency officers in serious legal jeopardy.”Stacey Young, executive director of Justice Connection, an advocacy organization for former Justice Department employees, accused Miller of ignoring the law and pressuring Justice Department officials to pursue vindictive prosecutions.
“这种对任何法律约束的蔑视一直是本届政府的标志，”扬说，他在司法部担任律师长达十八年。“我们可以把司法部愿意违法、无视法院命令、发起报复性和无理诉讼归因于他对部门领导层的巨大影响力。”
“His disdain for any legal restraint has been a hallmark of this administration,” said Young, who worked as a Justice Department lawyer for eighteen years. ”We can attribute DOJ’s willingness to violate the law, ignore court orders, and pursue vindictive and frivolous litigation to his tremendous influence over the department’s leadership.”