有些负面报道是一回事，而对斯蒂芬·米勒升职的报道则是另一回事。
There’s bad press, and then there’s the coverage of Stephen Miller’s promotion.
特朗普总统让米勒出任新幕僚长，引发了对这位新任高级助手的积怨如雪崩般倾泻而出。
In making Miller his new chief of staff, President Trump unleashed an avalanche of pent-up resentment toward his new top aide.
最刻薄的攻击来自众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯，他是众议院民主党领袖，想当下一任议长。
The cruelest cut came from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrats’ House leader who wants to be the next speaker.
他说他的团队不会与米勒合作，并称米勒是“彻头彻尾的种族主义者”。这一离谱的诽谤，更多暴露的是处境艰难的杰弗里斯，而非米勒。
He said his team would not work with Miller, whom he labeled a “stone cold racist.”The outrageous slander said more about the embattled Jeffries than it does Miller.
尽管如此，有一种合理的看法无可辩驳：这位新任白宫幕僚长的行事风格并不讨人喜欢。
Still, there is no arguing with the reasonable view that the new White House chief’s style is not one that endears.
米勒极其聪明，对移民方面的政府运作、法律和法院判例有着渊博的知识，他常常以机关枪般的语速把这些一股脑地抛向提问者。
Miller is whip smart and has a voluminous knowledge of government, laws and court precedents on immigration, all of which he routinely unloads on questioners in a machine-gun cadence.
他的举止常常流露出轻蔑，而他居高临下对人说话的习惯，使他成为民主党人及其媒体帮凶最爱攻击的对象。
His demeanor often conveys contempt and his habit of talking down to people has made him a favorite whipping boy for Dems and their media handmaidens.
特朗普仍在掌权 这种反应部分源于一个事实：米勒是特朗普的终极忠实拥护者，自2016年竞选以来一直跟随总统。
Don still in charge Part of that reaction stems from the fact that Miller is the ultimate Trump loyalist and has been with the president since the 2016 campaign.
早在杜克大学读书时，米勒就对移民问题有着激光般的专注，那远在特朗普进入政坛之前。
As far back as his college days at Duke, Miller had a laser-like focus on immigration, which was long before Trump entered politics.
因此，米勒从政策副主管升任前幕僚长苏西·威尔斯的继任者，似乎几乎不可避免。
As such, Miller’s promotion from policy deputy to former chief of staff Susie Wiles to her replacement seems almost inevitable.
从涌向他的如潮恶意来看，批评者认定米勒将取代特朗普设定议程的全部职责，并将成为民主党控制的国会与白宫之间的唯一联系人。
To judge from the river of bile flowing his way, detractors assume Miller will usurp all of Trump’s responsibility to set the agenda, and will be the only White House contact for the Dem congressional majority.
正如《纽约时报》在一个古怪的头版标题中所说：“米勒推行选民已拒绝的议程。”给这位“灰女士”的备忘：特朗普在未来两年仍将是总统，而民主党控制的国会不会掌控政府。
As The New York Times put it in a bizarre front-page headline, “Miller pursues agenda voters have rejected.”Memo to the Gray Lady: Trump will remain president for the next two years, and the Dem Congress will not control the government.
一些反米勒的夸张言论反映出，总统最严厉的批评者往往把这名助手视为他们所认为的特朗普内心黑暗的映照。
Some of the anti-Miller hyperbole reflects how the president’s harshest critics tend to see the aide as a reflection of what they regard as Trump’s inner darkness.
的确，特朗普本人已承认在几起涉及枪击的案件中存在特工失误，并承诺会收敛激进行动。
Indeed, Trump himself has admitted agent mistakes in a few cases that involved shootings and promises to dial back aggressive actions.
然而，从其他关键角度来看待米勒才是公允的，因为个人对他的反感掩盖了三个要点。
Yet it is only fair to see Miller in other crucial ways because the personal dislike for him overshadows three key points.
第一，他从来都不是政策制定者；尽管他担任特朗普移民立场的顾问，但他并不制定那些被要求由他解释和辩护的政策。
First, he has never been a policy maker, and while he has served as an adviser of Trump’s immigration stances, he doesn’t make the policy he is called upon to explain and defend.
第二，必须记住，特朗普在移民问题上的一贯强硬立场，是他2016年首次当选、并在2024年再次当选的主要原因之一。
Second, it is critical to remember that Trump’s consistent hard-line on immigration is a major reason why he was first elected in 2016, and again in 2024.
在这两次选举中，选民们除其他诉求外，都希望彻底改变多年来宽松的边境执法。
In both cases voters, among other things, wanted a sharp change from years of lax border enforcement.
继承的灾难第三点是，特朗普在第二任期继承的移民灾难，在民主党人或左翼媒体看来并不关键，现在依然如此。他们支持乔·拜登的开放边境政策，而那是一场彻底的灾难。仅数字本身就依然惊人。
Inherited disaster The third point is that the immigration disaster Trump inherited in his second term was not seen as crucial by Dems or the lefty media, and still isn’t. They supported Joe Biden’s open-border policy, which was a total disaster. The numbers alone remain staggering.
拜登决定向1200万甚至更多非法移民敞开大门，却不对他们是谁、将如何养活自己作任何评估，这制造了一个前所未有的问题，而这个问题至今未解。这1200万甚至更多的入境人数，使所有历史比较都相形见绌。
Biden’s decision to open the gates to 12 million or more illegals, without any assessment of who they were and how they would support themselves created an unprecedented problem that remains unsolved. The 12 million or more entries dwarfs all historical comparisons.
此前的大规模移民时代，即1890年至1920年的30年间，约有1800万移民来到美国。
A prior era of mass migration, the 30-year period from 1890 to 1920, saw about 18 million immigrants come to America.
认为一个世纪后，接近这一数字的移民能在四年任期内被无缝吸收，这种想法是疯狂的。事实上，甚至不清楚拜登本人是否相信这股涌入潮能够被管理。
To think that anywhere near those numbers could be seamlessly absorbed in a four-year term a century later is insane. In fact, it’s not clear even Biden believed the influx could be managed.
尽管他似乎对自己据称批准的政策感到担忧，但他的回应是让无能副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯担任边境沙皇。在她几次失误后回避这项任务时，总统什么也没说。
Although he appeared to be concerned about the policy he supposedly had approved, his response was to make his incompetent vice president, Kamala Harris, the border czar. The president said nothing as she dodged the assignment after a few fumbles.
拜登的国土安全部长亚历杭德罗·马约卡斯一再向国会声称边境安全无虞，即便毒品和移民像河水一样涌入。
Biden’s director of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, consistently claimed to Congress that the border was safe and secure, even as drugs and migrants flowed in like a river.
由于他的谎言和不作为，马约卡斯在分裂的众议院遭到弹劾，指控他“蓄意且系统性地拒绝遵守法律”，但这一举动被参议院否决。
For his lies and inaction, Mayorkas was impeached by a divided House of Representatives on charges that accused him of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law,” but the move was rejected by the Senate.
例证一：纽约 与此同时，任何蓝州的民主党官员都没有抱怨过，源源不断涌入他们城市的失业、且往往无法就业的男子。
Exhibit A: NYC Meanwhile, no Dem official in any blue state complained about the endless surge of unemployed and often unemployable men showing up in their cities.
以纽约时任市长埃里克·亚当斯为例，他向所有来者敞开了哥谭市的大门。
Take New York’s then mayor, Eric Adams, who threw open Gotham’s doors to all comers.
他唯一的抱怨是称得克萨斯州共和党人是种族主义者，因为他们用大巴把满满一车的移民送往纽约和其他蓝州城市。
His only complaint was to call Texas Republicans racists because they were sending buses full of migrants to New York and other blue cities.
共和党人有明确的目的——分担痛苦和成本，好让那些市长游说拜登关闭边境。
The Republicans had a clear purpose — to share the pain and cost so those mayors would lobby Biden to close the border.
即便曼哈顿中城已被淹没，亚当斯唯一的要求仍是让奥尔巴尼和华盛顿为他奢华的“欢迎马车”提供资金，其中包括免费住房、食物、交通、教育和医疗。
Adams’ only demand even as Midtown Manhattan was flooded was that Albany and Washington help fund his extravagant Welcome Wagon, which included free housing, food, transportation, education and medical care.
据估计，纽约市和纽约州在四年间共为这些非法新来者花费了150亿美元——而且许多开支仍在持续。
According to estimates, the city and state spent a combined $15 billion over a four-year period on the illegal newcomers — and many expenses are ongoing.
在2024年的竞选中，特朗普反复针对不断膨胀的成本、对新来者身份的一无所知，以及非法移民犯下的暴力犯罪和谋杀案件。
In his 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly targeted ballooning costs, the ignorance about who the newcomers were, and cases of violent crime and murders committed by illegals.
对此没有严肃的反驳，只有民主党人一贯的条件反射式指控——种族主义和排外主义，而这一切都被左翼媒体放大。这些媒体拥抱了特朗普试图驱逐的那些备受关注的非法移民案例。
There was no serious counterargument, just the Dems’ usual knee-jerk charges of racism and xenophobia, all of which were amplified by left-wing media. Those outlets embraced the cases of high-profile illegal immigrants Trump tried to deport.
一个很能说明问题的例子涉及基尔马·阿布雷戈·加西亚，大多数媒体仅将他称为一名“马里兰男子”，说他被“错误驱逐”。事实上，他是非法滞留美国，当局认为他是致命的MS-13帮派成员、人口贩运者和殴打妻子者。
A telling example involved Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which most of the media identified as simply a “Maryland man” who was “wrongly deported.”In fact, he was in the US illegally, and authorities believed he was a member of the deadly MS-13 gang, a human trafficker, and wife-beater.
同样，驱逐参与反以色列抗议和骚乱的外国学生的尝试，也遭到了歇斯底里的对待。
Similarly, attempts to deport foreign students who engaged in anti-Israel protests and riots were met with hysteria.
回到未来 特朗普在2023年的一次竞选演讲中阐述了他的政策，并引用了当年哈马斯入侵以色列的事件。
Back to the future Trump, in a 2023 campaign speech, laid out what his policies would be and cited the Hamas invasion of Israel that year.
他宣称：“我们将终止所有那些哈马斯同情者的签证，我们将把他们从我们的大学校园、我们的城市中清除出去，把他们赶出我们的国家。” 《纽约时报》用自己制造的歇斯底里来反驳这些承诺。
He declared that “we’ll terminate the visas of all of those Hamas sympathizers, and we’ll get them off our college campuses, out of our cities and get them the hell out of our country.”The Times countered those promises with a hysteria of its own making.
在一篇反映该报反特朗普议程的专栏文章中，激进派作家米歇尔·戈德堡的标题宣称，马哈茂德·哈利勒案“是自红色恐慌以来对言论自由的最大威胁”。这种做法使得非法移民被控谋杀、强奸和其他可怕罪行的案件几乎或完全没有得到报道。
In a reflection of the paper’s anti-Trump agenda, a headline on a column by radical writer Michelle Goldberg declared that the Mahmoud Khalil case “Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare.”The approach allowed little or no coverage of cases where illegal migrants were charged with murders, rapes and other horrific crimes.
既然米勒是特朗普的头号干将，而民主党控制着国会，旧的东西又将变成新的。当充满活力的左翼要求开放边境时，不要感到震惊。
Now that Miller is Trump’s top gun and Dems control Congress, what’s old will be new again. Don’t be shocked when the energized left demands open borders.