Stephen Miller, the notorious immigration hardliner, is returning to the White House for Trump’s second term, where the speechwriter and adviser will serve as Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy. CNN described Miller as “a lead architect of the president-elect’s plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants,” just as Miller was seen as a driving force behind the child separations of Trump’s first term. And while the Trump White House had a revolving door the first time around, Miller remained for the entire four years and has stayed in the Trump orbit since.
Now, Miller’s uncle has once again spoken out against Miller’s plans.
Why Stephen Miller’s ‘dark impulse’ chills his uncle to the core #SmartNews https://t.co/iabZ8Mxdr3
— D. L. Scott (@Rptrgodess) November 12, 2024
Dr. David Glosser, the Miller uncle who similarly spoke up during Trump’s first term, spoke to The Daily Mail this week.
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‘Stephen is just an ambitious functionary of [Trump’s] dark impulse,” Glosser told the newspaper. “‘I expect to have my lowest expectations met.”
“We can expect that he will fill his cabinet and staff with those whose primary qualification is personal obeisance to him rather than loyalty to the rule of law as outlined in our constitution,” Glosser added.
Glosser had first spoken about his nephew in an op-ed for Politico, in 2018, during the family separation crisis. In that piece, he shared his family’s immigration story, calling Miller a “hypocrite” because his family never would have reached America, under immigration policies favored by Miller.
ICYMI: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. – POLITICO Magazine https://t.co/0cKBozVU0l
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) November 11, 2024
“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country,” Glosser said in the Politico piece. “I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses— the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants — been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom.”
Miller did not have an official role with the 2024 Trump campaign, although he was an informal adviser and was sometimes seen on Trump’s campaign plane.
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