Melania Trump's protest against the US government's immigration policy US first lady Melania Trump shared her concerns with the president after several people she knew personally were deported from the US under the Trump administration's tough immigration policy, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to this report, after that conversation, Donald Trump told his aides that Stephen Miller, the chief architect of the administration's immigration policy, had gone too far in implementing that policy. In his positions, Trump ranges between calling for stricter treatment of immigrants and expressing private doubts about the severity and extent of deportation.