Chuck Todd wonders if President Donald Trump will drop deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller following poll numbers on the administration’s immigration policies.

BEN SMITH, SEMAFOR: And I wonder and I wonder if I mean, these sort of to me, like where this analogy breaks down is you see the numbers of immigration like flopping all over the place right now. Like people were able to — like doesn’t seem like people are sustaining their fear around immigration at all. I mean, I find that fascinating. I don’t really know what to think of it. CHUCK TODD: What’s happening here on immigration? SMITH: Yeah, yeah, right now. Well, it seems like Trump’s doing what he promised and it seems not popular. Well, popular when he promised it. And he succeeded on the border. TODD: But I think that was the mistake. The question was, what were people upset about the border or or immigration? They were upset about the border. And I think I think that, you know, Stephen Miller actually wants to, you know, he had a different agenda. SMITH: Right. TODD: He wanted to put he believed immigrants were taking jobs from Americans. SMITH: I think he wants like fewer taco restaurants and more. TODD: That’s right. He wants a more American culture. He Eurocentric American culture. And so that is I think that’s what’s unpopular. I think the border security was popular. I think what was what was unpopular, you know, there’s a there’s I was reading something the other day about, you know, sort of in some ways, immigration, the politics of immigration have been exactly the same, which is Americans love the immigrants that they know and they and they don’t they don’t like the immigrants they don’t know. And that’s always and which is ultimately why we don’t like Americans are recoiling it. Why are you getting rid of these people that are are making chicken affordable? Why are you getting rid of these people that are making produce affordable? Why are you attacking her? Why are you scaring her? I think and ultimately we’re still there. It’s right. Look at how many times you can write the story of, well, I voted for Trump, but I didn’t want that immigrant to get deported… He gets it every time he’s been that argument’s been made to him. He gets it. And I at some point, because the polls are showing this is not popular. The question I have is, does he turn on Stephen Miller on this or does Stephen Miller realize is he smart enough to realize what’s coming? And he sort of and he, you know.

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