Miami State Senator and Katie Miller Embroiled in Juicy Online Feud

Amid her criticism of the Trump administration’s ruthless immigration crackdown, Ileana Garcia, a Florida state senator and cofounder of Latinas for Trump, is fighting with Stephen Miller’s wife.

In an interview with the New York Times, the Republican and Cuban American state senator said the Republican Party will lose in the upcoming midterm elections if the administration continues its harsh immigration enforcement, pointing the finger squarely at Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and architect behind Trump’s draconian immigration policies that have resulted in federal agents killing two U.S. citizens in Minnesota.

“I do think that he will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller,” Garcia told the publication.

After the story hit X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Miller’s wife Katie, a native of Broward County, came to her man’s defense.

“Ileana was fired from DHS in Trump’s first term because she failed to show up to work,” Katie, host of the Katie Miller Podcast, wrote on X.

Garcia, who represents parts of Miami-Dade County, bit back, accusing Miller of calling her husband (then-boyfriend) a racist and leaking information to the press while serving as a spokesperson for the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2017 to 2019 under then-U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who oversaw the controversial family separation policy at the border. The couple married in February 2020 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

“@KatieMiller Invite me to your podcast so we can have a candid discussion about what truly transpired and how you labeled your then-boyfriend a racist when you were upset that he treated you poorly and me as a mere token Hispanic for the administration,” Garcia replied on X. “Let’s discuss who was responsible for the leaks in the White House, and how you helped carve the floor out from under then-Secretary Kirsten [sic] Nielsen.”

Prior to her election in 2020, Garcia worked in the first Trump administration as the first female Hispanic deputy press secretary at DHS. She said she didn’t like Miller back then, when he was serving as the president’s senior advisor and director of speechwriting.

Before the public feud between Katie and Garcia, the state senator criticized Miller for labeling Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse and U.S. citizen killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on January 24, a domestic terrorist and assassin.

“Distorting, politicizing, slandering – justifying what happened to Alex Pretti contradicts the American values the administration campaigned on,” she posted on X on Monday. “He was neither a domestic terrorist nor an assassin.”

She followed up to say that she is not afraid of Miller.

“Every time I criticize Stephen Miller, I get doxxed,” she wrote on Tuesday morning. “Why have we become everything we’ve criticized? I’m not afraid of you, Stephen Miller.”