Racist emails to Breitbart staff
In November 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center released excerpts of emails Miller had sent to Breitbart, a conservative news site, that promoted “white nationalist literature and racist propaganda,” the center said at the time.
The law center said it published portions of emails that Miller sent to Breitbart editors in 2015 and 2016, mainly when he was working for then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions and before he joined Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
One email appears to show Miler discussing potential articles after retailer Amazon began discussing pulling Confederate flag merchandise after nine black church members were fatally shot during a Bible study session in South Carolina in 2015.
Shooter Dylann Roof, an avowed white nationalist, had posed for photos with the battle flag.
‘’Have you thought about going to Amazon and finding the commie flags and then doing a story on that?” Miller wrote, according to the published emails.
In another excerpt, Miller while discussing the pope’s immigration message, mentioned a dystopian novel popular on the far right about violent migrants who invade France.
“Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to ‘Camp of the Saints,’” Miller wrote.
In 2019, the New York Times described the 1973 novel as “a must-read within white supremacist circles for decades.”
Family separation at the southern border
In 2018, Miller was identified in several media reports as the “architect” of the Trump administration’s family separation policy, when parents entering the country illegally were separated from their children when they were detained.
The policy, the Globe editorial board wrote in June 2018, “can be traced to Miller, Trump’s anti-immigrant whisperer, a veteran of his presidential campaign. Miller is a longstanding supporter of restricting immigration, both legal and illegal; he also coauthored the administration’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries. Turning twisted notions of white nationalism into policy is the role Miller seems to have prepared for his whole life.”
Muslim ban
Miller was also closely linked to Trump’s ban on new arrivals into the United States from several majority-Muslim countries.
When the Supreme Court upheld the ban in June 2018 by a 5-4 margin, Chief Justice John Roberts repeatedly echoed Miller in citing a provision of immigration law that gives presidents the power to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” as they deem necessary, the New York Times reported.
The provision “exudes deference to the president in every clause,” Roberts said.
Miller’s uncle voiced disapproval of his politics
Miller’s uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, a retired professor at Boston University School of Medicine, wrote an op-ed in Politico Magazine in 2018 excoriating his nephew for what he said was a betrayal of the legacy of their family, which fled antisemitic persecution in the early 20th century in present-day Belarus and migrated to the US.
“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 wrote.
“Acting for so long in the theater of right-wing politics, Stephen and Trump may have become numb to the resultant human tragedy and blind to the hypocrisy of their policy decisions,” he wrote. “After all, Stephen’s is not the only family with a chain immigration story in the Trump administration. Trump’s grandfather is reported to have been a German migrant on the run from military conscription to a new life in the United States, and his mother fled the poverty of rural Scotland for the economic possibilities of New York City.”
Miller on birthright citizenship
In August 2019, Trump told reporters that his administration was “looking very, very seriously” at doing away with birthright citizenship, the legal principle that anyone born within US borders becomes an American citizen, regardless of the parents’ immigration status.
Miller at the time echoed the president, claiming that “many legal scholars” believe that children of unauthorized immigrants are not entitled to automatic citizenship.
Miller told Fox News at the time that “many constitutional scholars would wholeheartedly disagree with” the principle that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution enshrines birthright citizenship, according to a transcript of the conversation posted to Breitbart.
“Most Americans think it is crazy that you can come across the border perhaps in your ninth month of pregnancy,” Miller said to Fox News host John Roberts.
“That’s the argument, what do you plan to do about it?” Roberts asked.
“Well, we’re looking at all legal options,” Miller replied. “But I think the key point I want to leave you with today … is that many legal scholars believe that the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ makes clear it does not apply to people here on a temporary basis or here illegally.”
Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land.
Material from the Associated Press and previous Globe stories was used in this report.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com.
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