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Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.

More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.

Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.

But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in President Donald Trump’s world, and the actions of the administration he is a senior member of, worried her.

“I was very concerned about where his thoughts were going, his views on immigration and the immigrant communities, his views against diversity in the United States,” Santiago told The Daily Beast.

Miller, largely credited as the architect of Trump’s immigration policies during his first administration,
has seemingly always abided by right-wing ideals and anti-immigration policies.

Recalling the day she won her class election at Santa Monica High School, Santiago said that Miller was “booed” off stage for giving an incendiary speech about picking up trash

A video of the moment, posted online years ago, shows Miller on stage asking his fellow students,
“Am I the only one who is sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash,
when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us?"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-deportation-high-school-classmate-b2768997.html