Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller is a far-right nativist political activist, and an all-American, only-American (no furriners allowed!) asshole"Stephen Miller is a Perfectly Mainstream Republican" by Jett Heer, The Nation, 2019-08-19 who served as a senior adviser and director of speech writing to Donald Trump during his first presidency and will serve as Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy during the second Trump presidency. He became known as the architect behind what he and the Trump administration originally called the "Muslim Ban." In 2025, he was one of two main authors of the "Trans Ban".https://www.megynkelly.com/2025/01/21/megyn-kelly-reacts-to-trump-executive-order-defining-sex-as-male-and-female/
==Early career and rise to Donald Trump adviser==
Miller first found fame (in what ended up being a stopped clock moment) defending members of the Duke Lacrosse team from a since he was one of the few people not directly connected to the team doing so at the height of the media frenzy rushing to judgment against them."Last Man Standing: The Immigration Insurgent Who Survived the Trump White House", Frontline, PBS, 2019-10-22 Unfortunately, similar to Richard Spencer,"The Duke Lacrosse Scandal and the Birth of the Alt-Right", Reeves Wiedeman, New York Intelligencer, 2017-04-14 this merely groomed him for a future career as a nativist wingnut. Propelled from the exposure from this case, Stephen Miller hooked up with then-Senator Jeff Sessions (as communications chief) and aligned with the Breitbart media machine, gaining considerable editorial influence with the site's editors.The Believer - How Stephen Miller went from obscure Capitol Hill staffer to Donald Trump’s warm-up act—and resident ideologue. Politico Magazine 27 June 2016 These qualifications were "good enough" for President Trump to promote him to the senior adviser position in his administration… where unswerving loyalty and a shared hardline viewpoint on icky brown and black people "immigration policy" made Stephen Miller one of the longest lasting Trump staff members not biologically related to Trump.
==Career under Donald Trump==
As senior adviser to the president, Stephen Miller played a key role in shaping Trump's immigration policy. His influence shaped attempts to impose a travel ban on certain Muslim countries"Inside Stephen Miller’s hostile takeover of immigration policy", Nahal Toosi, Politico, 2018-08-29 as well as an attempted cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that allows some undocumented children to received a work permit and defer deportation."How Stephen Miller Single-Handedly Got the U.S. to Accept Fewer Refugees", Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 2017-10-13 Miller unsuccessfully tried to push the Trump administration for a complete ban on student visas for Chinese nationals,"US considered ban on student visas for Chinese nationals", Demetri Sevastopulo and Tom Mitchell, Financial Times, 2018-10-02 and Miller was one of the key driving forces behind Trump's policy that led thousands of children to be separated from their parents at the Mexican border."How Anti-Immigration Passion Was Inflamed From the Fringe", Michael D. Shear and Katie Benner, 2018-06-18 Overall, Miller is considered one of the key figures of Trump's hard-line immigration policies."A Familiar Force Nurtures Trump’s Instincts on Immigration: Stephen Miller", Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 2018-11-04
Miller tried to justify the travel ban by using an analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies,"Terrorism and Trump's Travel Ban", Eugene Kiely, Factcheck.org, 2017-02-24 a group designated as an extremist immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)."Center for Immigration Studies", Southern Poverty Law Center, extremist files page
In an attempt to come up with additional justification for all of this "immigration policy", Miller commissioned a study asking the Department of Health and Human Services to study the costs of refugee resettlement. When HHS came back with the answer (namely, refugee resettlement actually generated revenue, and the revenue generated by refugees in the form of local, state, and federal taxes exceeded the costs of resettling them by sixty-three billion dollars), naturally Miller ignored the advice in favor of being a loyal lapdog to Trump.
==Racist email leaks==
While well known for his caustic nativism, the true depth of Miller's racism was clarified when the SPLC, together with Hatewatch, reviewed more than 900 private emails sent to Breitbart between March 4, 2015 to June 27, 2016."Stephen Miller's Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails", Michael Edison Hayden, 2019-11-12 The conversations consisted of emails between Mr. Miller and former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh (who has since left the alt-right movement and regretted her participation in it"Get Out While You Still Can", Rosie Gray, Buzzfeed News, 2019-05-01).
Within the emails:
*Miller, upon hearing about used all of the empathy he had (read: none) in evaluating the situation, by speculating that: A) This would possibly drive a mass migration to the United States, and B) 100% of migrants would be granted temporary protected status (TPS), concluding: C) OMG PANIC!!!!!!!!!. To justify this position, Miller sent an article written by known pseudoscientific dickhead Steve Sailer, on the white nationalist website VDARE (a website well known to traffic in nonsense as The Great Replacement myth), with much hand-wringing over the TPS policy for no reason other than it involves foreign countries and immigrants.Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Mexico's Hurricane Patricia And "Temporary Protected Status" by Steve Sailer (10/23/2015) VDARE (archived from 6 Sep 2019 17:39:57 UTC). (Later emails show that Miller also subscribes to The Great Replacement theory.)
* As part of a general email chain where Miller espouses racist nonsense about immigrant "invasions" (with the usual puffed up bullshit about "violent crime" and "dropping SAT scores"), Miller recommended that Breitbart editor Julia Hahn read the book a dystopian novel known for racist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant themes, and widely compared to the neo-Nazi novel The Turner Diaries.
* In another recollection, McHugh recalls how Miller recommended an article from notorious white nationalist site American Renaissance to discuss interracial crime. (Miller previously appeared on American Renaissance in his Duke University days, as an author of a Frontpage Magazine articleSanta Monica High’s Multicultural Fistfights by Stephen H. Miller (July 19, 2005) Frontpage Magazine via American Renaissance (archived from 18 Sep 2019 05:40:50 UTC). that naturally transformed a story concerning a well-meaning, but poor, judgement call from a high school principalSMMUSD board member brings alleged gang members onto Samohi campus by Hans Laetz (Apr 27, 2005) The Malibu Times. into some caricature-oriented screed regarding "The Left" and "political indoctrination". Within this screed was a bizarre rant, suggesting that acknowledging racism exists somehow can cause gang violence. Naturally, this article found favor with American Renaissance and was reprinted there.) 
* Mr. Miller, in a series of emails concerning attempts to remove Confederate monuments, suggested that Breitbart focus on… how they should advocate removing Spanish flags and crosses due to (admittedly regrettable) Spanish conduct in colonial Latin America?
* In another email, Miller urged that Breitbart's coverage of the perpetrated by Chris Harper-Mercer, a noted mentally troubled incel,‘Here I am, 26, with no friends, no job, no girlfriend’: Shooter’s manifesto offers clues to 2015 Oregon college rampage, Rick Anderson, LA Times, 2017-09-23]) should focus on his claimed "mixed race" heritage because of course they should.
* Other nutjobs that Miller attempted to source for Breitbart stories include Pamela Geller and Infowars.
* As a side note, other emails showed that Miller has a fascination with Calvin Coolidge… 
===Reaction to the leaked emails===
The email leaks sparked many calls that Stephen Miller should resign, from:
* 107 Democratic House members
* 1 House Republican (Mike Coffman, R-CO)"Jewish Groups, More Than 100 House Democrats Call On Stephen Miller To Resign", Rachel Sandler, Forbes 
* More than 50 national civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Muslim Public Affairs Council."Letter to the White House: Civil Rights Groups Call for Stephen Miller's Removal", Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 2019-11-18
* Many Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Union for Reform Judaism, J-Street, and others."Jewish Groups, More Than 100 House Democrats Call On Stephen Miller To Resign", Rachel Sandler, Forbes 
* Several anonymous DHS and DOJ officials, who view that Miller has turned their agencies into "personal tool[s] for hate.""Sickening" And "Proof" Of Racism: DHS Officials Said Stephen Miller Must Go After His Emails Were Released", Hamed Aleaziz, Buzzfeed News, 2019-11-15
* Even Fox News analyst Juan Williams called for Miller's resignation."Fox News Analyst Juan Williams Says Trump Must Fire Stephen Miller", Daily Beast, 2019-12-02
==America First Legal==
Miller founded the non-profit America First Legal in 2021, and is currently its president.How a Trump-allied group fighting ‘anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden in court: America First Legal was founded last year by Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigrant family separation policy by Beth Reinhard & Josh Dawsey (December 12, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST) The Washington Post.About America First Legal. The organization claims to be the long-awaited answer to the ACLU. AFL also wants to put an end to "anti-white bigotry". AFL has won court cases against government funding that reserved funding for historically disadvantaged groups (women, minorities and veterans). AFL has used the legal strategy of forum shopping, choosing jurisdictions where they are likely to have rulings under conservative judges.
==Irony time!==
Miller was born into a liberal Jewish family in California,Leaked Emails Fuel Calls For Stephen Miller To Leave White House NPR 26 November 2019 and didn't have conservative views until he read a book about how gun control sucks.Meet 34-year-old Stephen Miller, Trump's longest-serving senior adviser and mastermind of his most inhumane immigration policies Business Insider 21 February 2020
Miller was called out for being a hypocrite by none other than Miller's uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, as one of Miller's grandfathers was a Belarusian immigrant."Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.", David S. Glosser, Politico, 2018-08-13 (Of course, this hypocrisy is no different than the hypocrisy of his bossDonald Trump Even Lies About Being Swedish (He’s Actually German): A Swedish website teases the world's most famous comb-over for continuing to peddle his grandfather's fake origin story by Michael Daly (03.24.16 10:02 PM ET) The Daily Beast.).
Miller is not related to (i.e. the space cowboy, the joker, smoker, and midnight toker, who flies like an eagle and takes the money and runs),"Why Stephen Miller’s Emails Are White Nationalism Explained, Explained", Michael Harriot, The Root, 2019-11-19 who currently, as a board member of "Jazz at Lincoln Center Executive and Board Leadership", Jazz At Lincoln Center (jazz.org) demonstrably has much better taste in music than Stephen Miller.
==See also==
*Donald Trump
*Guess which "news" source Miller emailed
*Spreading the hate since 1996!
==References==
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