Stephen Miller and Immigration

Miller Planned Extreme Anti-Immigrant Policies For A Second Trump Administration In 2025

Miller Promised That Trump Would Use The “Vast Arsenal Of Federal Powers To Implement The Most Spectacular Migration Crackdown” In A Second Term

Miller Said That, “Trump Will Unleash The Vast Arsenal Of Federal Powers To Implement The Most Spectacular Migration Crackdown” In A Second Term According to the New York Times, “‘Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,’ Mr. Miller said, adding, ‘The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.’” [New York Times, 11/11/23]

Miller Was The Architect Behind Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies During His First Term

Miller Was The Architect Of Trump’s Discriminatory Immigration Policies

SPLC: Top Trump Aide Stephen Miller Was The “Architect” Of The Administration’s Discriminatory Immigration Policies. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing ‘intense trauma’ in children.” [Southern Poverty Law Center, 11/12/19]

Sources Said Miller Was Trump’s “Go-To” Regarding Southern Border Policy. According to Reuters, “It is also difficult to get an exact sense of who is crafting policy recommendations for Trump. Two sources said former White House senior adviser and hardline anti-immigration advocate Stephen Miller was a go-to on the southern border with Mexico. Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general was the chief of staff of Trump’s National Security Council, is an adviser on national security, according to Lewandowski, the ex-Trump campaign manager. Miller and Kellogg declined to comment.” [Reuters, 2/1/24] 

Miller Was Behind Trump’s Family Separation Policy

Miller Was Behind Trump’s Effort To Separate Migrant Children From Their Parents At The Border. According to CNN, “Nearly ever present by the President’s side, perhaps no one is more responsible for the Trump agenda than Stephen Miller. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at keeping families together at the border, but not before several days of public outcry over the administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy that had resulted in thousands of undocumented children separated from their families at the border. Some of the Trump administration’s most controversial and chaos-inducing policies can be traced back to Miller, including the travel ban and the firing of former FBI director James Comey. And the latest immigration debacle is no different.” [CNN, 6/23/18]

2018: Miller Reportedly Advocated Blowing Up Boats Of Migrants

2018: Miller Advocated Blowing Up Boats Of Unarmed Migrants With Predator Drones. According to Rolling Stone, “STEPHEN MILLER, ONE of Donald Trump’s top immigration advisers, advocated using U.S. predator drones in 2018 to blow up migrant boats full of unarmed civilians, according to an upcoming book by a former administration official.” [Rolling Stone, 6/26/23]

Miller Allegedly Argued That The Migrants Were Not Protected Under The Constitution Because They Were In International Waters. According to Rolling Stone, “In a passage reviewed by Rolling Stone, former Trump Department of Homeland Security appointee Miles Taylor writes about an April 2018 conversation in which Miller allegedly advocated an attack on a migrant ship headed for the United States. Miller, Taylor writes, argued for the potential mass killing of civilians by suggesting they were not protected under the U.S. Constitution because they were in international waters.” [Rolling Stone, 6/26/23]

Miller Was Behind Trump’s Travel Ban

Miller Was Behind Trump’s Travel Ban. According to the Guardian, “As Donald Trump’s second attempt at introducing a controversial Muslim travel ban neared its scheduled start on Wednesday, few would have been hoping for its success as anxiously as his senior adviser Stephen Miller. Miller was the policy’s 31-year-old architect and was at the center of the troubled first attempt to introduce a travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries in late January.” [Guardian, 3/15/17]

Stephen Miller and January 6 and Democracy

Miller Was Involved With The Rally That Resulted In The Capitol Riot

Miller Was Directly Involved With The Rally That Resulted In The Attack On The Capitol

Miller And His Team Helped Trump Prepare For The Remarks He Gave On January 6. According to CNN, “Miller and his team also helped prepare for Trump’s remarks prior to the riot at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, had been at the White House that day and was with the President when he spoke at the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, the committee added.” [CNN, 4/14/22]

Miller Spoke To Trump On The Phone Minutes Before The January 6 Rally. According to CNN, “Miller is likely to be asked in the grand jury about his phone call with Trump minutes before the Ellipse rally that day, and other conversations they had about the election. The grand jury is hearing evidence as part of a special counsel’s criminal investigation.” [CNN, 4/11/23]

Miller Was With Trump When He Spoke At The January 6 “Stop The Steal Rally.” According to CNN, “Miller and his team also helped prepare for Trump’s remarks prior to the riot at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, had been at the White House that day and was with the President when he spoke at the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, the committee added.” [CNN, 4/14/22] 

Miller Spread Falsehoods About Voter Fraud Ahead Of The 2020 Election

Miller Spread Falsehoods About Mail-In Voting Ahead Of The 2020 Election

Mille Spread Falsehoods About The 2020 Election And Mail-In Voting. According to CNN, “

In an attempt to bolster President Donald Trump’s false narrative against mail-in ballots, senior White House policy adviser Stephen Miller continued spreading erroneous claims on Friday about voting by mail. In an interview on Fox News, Miller falsely suggested there are no checks on mail-in ballots, claiming that non-citizens can easily vote in presidential election. ‘Nobody who mails in a ballot has their identity confirmed,’ Miller said on Fox News. ‘Nobody checks to see if they’re even a US citizen. Think about that.’ Facts First: Miller is wrong. Non-citizens are explicitly not permitted to register to vote in federal elections and all mail-in ballots are authenticated in several ways.” [CNN, 7/31/20]

Stephen Miller and Racism

Miller Shared Racist Views About His High School Classmates

Miller A Number Of Students In His High School “Lacked Basic English Skills” And Claimed That His Honors Classes Were Lacking In Hispanic Students

Miller Wrote That In Ninth Grade He Noticed That A Number Of Santa Monica High School Students “Lacked Basic English Skills.” According to a letter to the editor by Stephen Miller in the Santa Monica Lookout, “When I entered Santa Monica High School in ninth grade, I noticed a number of students lacked basic English skills.” [Santa Monica Lookout, Letter to the Editor – Stephen Miller, accessed 5/9/24] 

Miller Wrote That Despite A Large Number Of Hispanic Students At His High School, There Are Usually Few, If Any, Hispanic Students In My Honors Classes.” According to a letter to the editor by Stephen Miller in the Santa Monica Lookout, “There are usually very few, if any, Hispanic students in my honors classes, despite the large number of Hispanic students that attend our school.” [Santa Monica Lookout, Letter to the Editor – Stephen Miller, accessed 5/9/24] 

Miller Wrote That Translating Announcements From English To Spanish Provided “A Crutch” And Demeaned Immigrants As Incompetent

Miller Wrote That The School Providing Announcements In English And Spanish Was “A Crutch.” According to a letter to the editor by Stephen Miller in the Santa Monica Lookout, “Even so, pursuant to district policy, all announcements are written in both Spanish and English. By providing a crutch now, we are preventing Spanish speakers from standing on their own. As politically correct as this may be, it demeans the immigrant population as incompetent, and makes a mockery of the American ideal of personal accomplishment.” [Santa Monica Lookout, Letter to the Editor – Stephen Miller, accessed 5/9/24] 

Miller Cultivated Relationships With Known Racists

Known Racist David Horowitz Was Said To Have Taken Miller Under His Wing And Became A Father Figure To Him

Miller Asked David Horowitz To Speak At His High School. According to an interview with journalist Jean Guerrero on NPR, “And a lot of these people remember listening to teenage Stephen Miller on The Larry Elder Show and being very impressed with him. But David Horowitz – you know, when he gets a call from Stephen Miller inviting him to speak at the – at his high school, he agrees because he also was just – you know, he saw Stephen Miller as a kindred spirit.” [NPR interview – Jean Guerrero, 8/24/20]

Horowitz Was Said To Have Taken Miller Under His Wing And Became Like A Father Figure To Him. According to an interview with journalist Jean Guerrero on NPR, “And David Horowitz kind of takes Stephen Miller under his wing and becomes almost like a father figure to Stephen Miller really early on, inviting him over to his house to talk about ideas and, later on, really fostering his career.” [NPR interview – Jean Guerrero, 8/24/20]

Horowitz Was Said To Have Liked Miller’s Views Against Multiculturalism And His School. According to an interview with journalist Jean Guerrero on NPR, “But David Horowitz – you know, when he gets a call from Stephen Miller inviting him to speak at the – at his high school, he agrees because he also was just – you know, he saw Stephen Miller as a kindred spirit. And he thought he was really gutsy for going out there with his views against multiculturalism and against his school.” [NPR interview – Jean Guerrero, 8/24/20]

Miller Reportedly Was Mentored By White Supremacist Richard Spencer In College

Miller Reportedly Worked On An Immigration Policy Debate At Duke With “Alt-Right” Leader Richard Spencer. According to the News & Observer, “While at Duke, Miller encountered a fellow member of the Duke Conservative Union, Richard Spencer, who was a graduate student. Spencer would later become a figure in the ‘alt-right’ movement who founded a white supremacist organization, the National Policy Institute. Media reports have said Spencer mentored Miller, a claim that Miller denied. Last year, Miller told The Daily Beast that Spencer’s claim of mentorship ‘is totally false and obviously ludicrous. … I strongly condemn his views.’ The link between the two men has been exaggerated, Spencer wrote in an altright.com blog post Wednesday titled ‘Stephen Miller and Me.’ The two worked on an immigration policy debate at Duke. But, Spencer wrote, ‘After we left Duke, we drifted apart. The last time we spoke was, I think, around 2009. We were friends, but we haven’t been in communication for some time.’” [News & Observer, 2/3/17]