Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the newly elected top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, laid into White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller Thursday over his support for President Trump's robust immigration crackdown.

“Stephen Miller is doing what he loves to do, which is be essentially the biggest piece of s‑‑‑ in this country,” Garcia said in an appearance on the "Pod Save America" podcast.

“Stephen Miller should be ashamed for the way he's acting. I can't even believe he's from our state, which actually makes me more, uh, more, more sick,” he told host Jon Favreau, who worked in the Obama administration.

The California lawmaker went further, warning the American dream is being “ripped away” from immigrants through continued raids and deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as

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