White House senior adviser Stephen Miller was called a fascist earlier this week while dining at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., according to the New York Post.
The encounter took place on Sunday at Espita Mezcaleria. The Post reports that a patron of the restaurant called out Miller — an immigration hard-liner — over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separates migrant families caught crossing the border illegally.
{mosads}“Hey look guys, whoever thought we’d be in a restaurant with a real-life fascist begging [for] money for new cages?” a customer said to Miller, according to the Post.
Miller reportedly did not respond to the hecklers.
The incident occurred just a few days before activists similarly interrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen‘s dinner at a Mexican restaurant, resulting in her leaving the restaurant.
The group repeatedly yelled “shame” at Nielsen and “End Texas concentration camps.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the zero tolerance policy earlier this year, saying the Department of Justice would criminally prosecute all adults attempting to illegally cross the southern border into the U.S. As a result, families who crossed together would in some cases be separated, he said.
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order ending the policy. It was later reported, however, that there may not be a special effort from the Trump administration to reunite migrant families separated at the border.