Stephen Miller is widely known as the architect of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policies. [74][75], While in the Trump administration, Miller met repeatedly with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, whom Miller described himself as a "huge fan" of.
cities. While a debate broke out among liberal Jews on Twitter, as to whether they should pray for the president of the United States after his positive COVID-19 diagnosis, nobody in those circles seems to have any such qualms about his senior aide, Stephen Miller.
[2] In a later blog post, he said the relationship had been exaggerated.
[26][40] As communications director, Miller was responsible for writing many of the speeches Sessions gave about the bill.
[30] Horowitz has been described as an influential figure in Miller's early life. [54] In November 2017, Miller was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller in relation to his role in Comey's dismissal. Two of them literally laughed at the mere suggestion that the Hatewatch exposé could have toppled or hobbled the top Trump adviser. Jewish Twitter tried to pray for Trump, but Stephen Miller’s diagnosis generates only jokes.
[30], In 2007,[34] Miller received his bachelor's degree from Duke University, where he studied political science. Miller then went on to state, "The president is a political genius... who took down the Bush dynasty, who took down the Clinton dynasty, who took down the entire media complex". [22][23][24] When his great-grandmother arrived in the US in 1906, she spoke only Yiddish, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. [71][72] During the same month, Representative Ilhan Omar called Miller a white nationalist as part of her comments on the Department of Homeland Security overhaul, which led to a strong response from several Republicans, including Representative Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump Jr., who accused her of anti-Semitism as Miller is Jewish.
[1] His mother's ancestors—Wolf Lieb Glotzer and his wife, Bessie—emigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire's Antopol, in what is present-day Belarus, arriving in New York on January 7, 1903, on the German ship S.S. Moltke,[21] thus escaping the 1903–06 anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus and other parts of the Russian Empire. [65], In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, Miller played an influential role in Trump's messaging, which focused on sowing fears about immigration. Ari Feldman is a staff writer at the Forward.
Copyright ©2020The Forward Association, Inc.All rights reserved. Omar tweeted her conviction that Miller is a white nationalist, linking to an article from 2019 about his role in picking a “tougher” head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [30] Horowitz later helped Miller to get a position with ultra-conservative Congressman John Shadegg in early 2009. [5][16][17], On January 7, 2018, Miller appeared on Jake Tapper's State of the Union on CNN. Though some where concerned that certain jokes approached antisemitic tropes. [5][16][17] Emails leaked in November 2019 showed that Miller had promoted articles from white nationalist publications VDARE and American Renaissance, and had espoused conspiracy theories. While we generally do not seek to edit or actively moderate comments, our spam filter prevents most links and certain key words from being posted and the Forward reserves the right to remove comments for any reason. The emails became the basis for an exposé that showed that Miller had enthusiastically pushed the views of white nationalist publications such as American Renaissance and VDARE, as well as the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars, and promoted The Camp of the Saints, a French novel circulating among neo-Nazis, shaping both White House policy and Breitbart's coverage of racial politics. Those immigrants had been protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy until that policy's rescission a month earlier, in September 2017. He was among several White House employees affected by an outbreak. [58], Miller and Attorney General Sessions were described as the chief champions of the Trump administration's decision to start to separate migrant children from their parents when they crossed the U.S.
"[82] As of November 15, 2019, over 80 Democratic members of Congress have called for Miller's resignation in light of his emails.
[7][8][9] Miller has been credited as the person behind the Trump administration's decision to reduce the number of refugees accepted into the United States.
The New York Times reported that Miller and Sessions were among the Trump Administration officials who developed the demands.
[14] Nielsen had opposed a plan Miller supported whereby the Trump administration would carry out mass arrests of undocumented immigrant families in 10 major U.S. [4][5][6] He has been a key adviser since the early days of Trump's presidency. [41] Miller and Sessions developed what Miller describes as "nation-state populism", a response to globalization and immigration that influenced Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. [97], On August 2, 2017, Miller had a heated exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta at the White House daily briefing regarding the Trump administration's support for the RAISE Act to sharply limit legal immigration and favor immigrants with high English proficiency.
[26] Miller was in the habit of "riling up his fellow [high school] classmates with controversial statements";[31] for instance, he told Latino students to speak only English. Miller argued that a ban was necessary to reduce Chinese espionage, but that another benefit was that it would hurt elite universities with staff and students critical of Trump.
"[99] Miller added that immigration has "ebbed and flowed" throughout American history and asked how many immigrants the U.S. had to accept annually to "meet Jim Acosta's definition of the Statue of Liberty law of the land. [20], Miller was born on August 23, 1985 in Santa Monica, California, where he was raised, the second of three children in the Jewish family of Michael D. Miller, a real estate investor, and Miriam (née Glosser). We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
Miller disputed the connection between the Statue of Liberty and immigration, pointing out that "the poem that you're referring to, that was added later, is not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty. Within the Trump administration, Miller's idea faced opposition, in particular from Terry Branstad, the ambassador to China, who argued that such a ban would harm US trade to China and hurt small American universities more than the elite ones. ", policy of separating migrant children from their parents, Federation for American Immigration Reform, United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), more wall along the Mexico–United States border, fund building a wall along the southern border with Mexico, "How a 32-year-old far right darling became the man who writes Trump's biggest speeches — and the one person people keep blaming for the shutdown", "Trump's Newest Senior Adviser Seen as a White Nationalist Ally", "Lindsey Graham slams Stephen Miller, says "White House staff has been pretty unreliable, "Stephen Miller: How much influence does he have on Trump? Copyright ©2020The Forward Association, Inc.All rights reserved.
In a 2016 interview, Spencer said he had mentored Miller at Duke. [26][27][28] While attending Santa Monica High School, Miller began appearing on conservative talk radio.
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday, the latest of a growing number of people in President Donald Trump's orbit who have contracted the virus over the past week.. [11][51] Miller argued that such a policy would deter migrants from coming to the United States. During the meetings, which were held off the White House grounds, Miller and Johnson "swapped speech-writing ideas and tips".
[26] He served as president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper.
[55], In September 2017, The New York Times reported that Miller stopped the Trump administration from showing the public an internal study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues. [57] The New York Times had also reported in November 2017 that Miller was in regular contact with George Papadopoulos during the campaign about his discussions with Russian government officials. [50] Miller and Bannon preferred executive orders to legislation. In a statement provided to BuzzFeed News, Miller said he had been working remotely and self-isolating for several days before testing positive for COVID-19. Miller gained national attention for his defense of the students who were wrongly accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse case. [78], On October 6, 2020, Miller tested positive for COVID-19. "[100], Miller married Katie Waldman, a fellow administration official, on February 16, 2020.
Miller also worked on Dave Brat's successful 2014 House campaign, which unseated Republican majority leader Eric Cantor. Tapper accused Miller of dodging questions, while Miller questioned the legitimacy of CNN as a news broadcaster, and as the interview became more contentious, with both participants talking over each other, Tapper ended the interview and continued to the next news story. [18][19] Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists.
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