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onservative Justice Clarence Thomas and at least four of his colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, though it's unclear how many, unceremoniously declined to disturb a federal judge's order blocking enforcement of SB 4-C, a law that created state criminal penalties for illegal immigration in Florida.

The Wednesday denial of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's application for a stay of U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams' preliminary injunction pending appeal in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was only one line, containing no further explanation or reasoning from SCOTUS.

"The application for stay presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied," the order said.

In April, Williams, a Barack Obama appointee, sided with the plaintiffs, the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Farmworker Association of Florida, granting the temporary restraining order and the injunction they requested. Williams was persuaded by the argument that SB 4-C amounted to an unconstitutional state assertion of immigration enforcement powers that belong to the federal government.

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Former Donald Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller made baseless claims about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's record on immigration during an interview with Fox News Tuesday.

"He is the biggest booster in the whole country for unlimited refugee resettlement," Miller, who helped to shape the Trump administration's immigration policies, said. "That means under the Harris/Walz plan, they’re going to turn the entire Midwest into Mogadishu."

Miller added, "That's their plan. That's their policy. I don't think there's a market for that in the United States of America."

Responding to a video of the interview on social media, MSNBC's Katie Phang replied: "Wut?"

USA Today columnist Rex Huppke replied: GOOD MESSAGING! DEFINITELY GO WITH THIS, PERSON WHO FOR SURE DOESN'T HAVE AN ATTIC FULL OF EXTREMELY CREEPY DOLLS!

Mehdi Hasan wrote: "Under the Trump Miller plan, they’re going to turn the entire United States into a fascist dystopia."

Last June, Vanity Fair noted that Miller "was the architect of the Trump administration’s family-separation plan," managed "a program in which literal infants were taken from their parents, a policy the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said amounted to 'government-sanctioned child abuse'," and was even "said to 'actually enjoy' seeing photos of families being separated at the border."

Furthermore, earlier this year, Axios reported that if Trump wins the White House in November, Miller plans to head a program that would "focus on 'anti-white racism' rather than discrimination against people of color."

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