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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/25/stephen-miller-testify-house-1289871A trio of top Democrats demanded documents Thursday related to President Donald Trumps recent staff shakeup at the Homeland Security Department.
In a letter to acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan, Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) called on the department to turn over communications tied a spate of resignations and forced exits earlier this month. The lawmakers cited reports that White House senior adviser Stephen Miller had pressed department officials to make extreme immigration policy decisions.
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Why is Miller not in every broadcast, front page, everyday....he is the person behind this immigration chaos...
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)barbtries
(28,798 posts)and resident nazi.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)with dead eyes, same as Kushner.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Dude worked side by side by side with, and was mentored by, infamous Nazi Richard Pencer. It's disgusting that this hasn't been hammered on every single day.
Baitball Blogger
(46,730 posts)won't give a hoot until you go after white people of their own ancestral background. I know this from talking to one. She's Irish-American and got defensive when I told her it was time to round up the Irish Americans who over stay their Visas. She immediately got defensive and said that they can stay as long as they contribute. After further inquiries I understand her point to mean that if they're engineers and their companies allow them to stay, they should not be the target of deportations. When I asked what would happen if they lost their jobs, she said that they can stay as long as they get another job. In other words, her prejudices allowed her to make concessions.
My surprise is that this immigration issue has been allowed to become an exclusive purging of brown-skinned people who have historically contributed by working jobs that most Americans think is beneath them. They're not taking anyone's job. On the other hand, we are not questioning why there are white undocumented immigrants who are allowed to work in jobs that are in direct competition with Americans? Why is no one asking the question?
If you make it clear that it's the white undocumented immigrants who are taking the jobs, and they should receive the same treatment, it won't take long for the center right to stop their aggressive stance against immigration in general.
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)I have, of course, met, worked with, gone to school with and been neighbors with many people. Believe it or not, I'm pretty sure I have known more illegal Canadians than Mexicans. During Reagans immigration raids in the 80s they raided a place where I worked and two Mexicans ran out the back door when they arrived. There were three illegal Canadians working there who were never even questioned.
I haven't heard anyone demanding a wall at the Canadian border. All this crap is not about citizenship, immigration or anything else but a pure hatred of Mexicans and other Latino people. Always has been. Period.
For fuck's sake, Trump's wife worked here illegally and he knew it.
Here in Northern California, the Mexicans have a saying: We didn't cross the border, it crossed us.
Baitball Blogger
(46,730 posts)moose65
(3,167 posts)After the breakup of the Soviet Union, there was a big influx of immigrants from those Eastern European countries. This was during Poppy Bushs administration, and there wasnt a peep about illegal immigration from that area. When did Melania come from Slovenia??
Farmer-Rick
(10,183 posts)Our first nude lady is a genius at being naked. I think she should give the American people a private showing. She is a genius at taking off her clothes...what an accomplishment.
But it amazes me how the neo- Nazis today are so aligned with the Slavs. There was a time, when the Nazis took over Germany and our fathers and grandfathers beat the shit out of the mass murderers, when no self respecting Nazis would align themselves with Slavs like little man Putin and a Slovenian Sex Worker like our naked first lady.
The Nazis thought Slavs were subhuman and wanted to exterminate as many as possible.....I guess they changed their minds when the Slavs beat them.
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)about having a college degree.
Farmer-Rick
(10,183 posts)Slovenia, unlike our stingy country, offers free college tuition and she couldn't even make it through. I guess she was just too busy getting that naked thing just right.
Botany
(70,516 posts)According to the story she left the University of Ljubljana after 1 semester to become a "model"
in Milan. Although Melania's lack of college did not stop Trump from posting on his web site
that she had a 4 year degree in design/architecture.
We are way way down the rabbit hole now.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)If you tell them she has a four year degree, then they will praise her for being educated. "Our smart FLOTUS!" If you say she dropped out after one semester and became a model, they will praise her for being a working class person just like them. "Hard working FLOTUS!" At the end of the day, though, it boils down to one thing: "Our hot, white FLOTUS."
Botany
(70,516 posts)RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)No surprise there.
mahina
(17,664 posts)And was then was shocked when she got caught
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Yes, I think this is a very good point of discussion, whether the trumper we are talking to is Irish or not, as long as they are white they will defend them...
Well done! This must become a meme.
Baitball Blogger
(46,730 posts)I was afraid I was going to get skewered. It's like everyone is satisfied with it being a racist reaction to brown-skinned immigrants. But no one sees how this can be stopped when you force the same policies on people that look white!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,183 posts)The only person to die at the last large Nazi gathering in Charlottesville was a white woman.
They don't like Jewish people, they don't care for Catholics, they thought Slavs were subhuman.
The Nazis in Germany attacked Russia because they thought Slavs were too weak to fight back. Slavs like our first naked lady and Putin.
So it seems to me, these white supremacist just want to hate everyone and use the color of our skin as an excuse to hate some more than others. But in they end they hate us all because they are being manipulated by our American Capitalist Kings.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)People like Miller work behind the scenes, this ideas do not come from the buffoon, he is too tied up with tweeter and spewing stupidity all day, plus lets face it, he really is not very smart.
The deal is that the buffoon makes noise (decoy function), then the more evil people, like Miller, work behind the scenes while everyone is talking about the latest stupidity from the creature.
And I have been asking the same question on why are Democratic leaders were not looking at those behind the scenes? Although they may been and we just don't know about it. This is good news that now we now they are.
Interesting thing is that Miller's own family outed him out last year, they spoke at how evil the guy is.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)putin, kim, miller, saudis, the world's oligarchs and gangsters....
msongs
(67,413 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)being focused on. I read somewhere he manages to keep his name off everything, but he is pulling the strings. Zero tolerance was all his.
I hope they nail him good, what a thug he is too. Remember when he was harassed at a sushi place and threw away his take out food. what a snowflake is that what they call them???
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/stephen-miller-trump-mastermind-immigration-cruelty.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/trump-stephen-miller-immigration-1266046
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)Stephen Miller may be the scariest person in politics currently today. It's a tight race with McConnell. Edge to Miller because he's so close to the levers of power, is an unabashed white nationalist, is unelected and unaccountable, and Trump believes everything he says.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)needs to go to prison for life.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... tRump needs a Scheissekommando ...
... he needs a lot of Scheissekommandos ...
Farmer-Rick
(10,183 posts)The Nazis really hated the Slavs. Especially the Polish people but they hated Russians too. That's why they attacked Russia. But the Slavs beat them as did our fathers and grandfathers.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... oh, no-no-no ...
... I know persons ...
... that's not a person ...
Botany
(70,516 posts)http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/ilhan-omar-is-right-stephen-miller-is-a-white-nationalist.html
Stephen Miller is personally responsible for the most xenophobic policies of the most xenophobic presidency in modern American history. The senior White House adviser authored the travel ban that denied a wide variety of American Muslims the right to be visited by their overseas relatives. He implored the president to adopt a policy of family separation at the southern border, arguing that Central American families would be less likely to seek asylum in the United States if the U.S. government gained a reputation for subjecting their children to psychological torment. The public hated this policy, and the judiciary struck it down. Meanwhile, the Trump administration proved itself incapable of competently administering the program: the U.S. government ended up losing track of thousands of migrant children and allowing others to be legally adopted by U.S. citizens without their birth parents consent.
And yet Stephen Miller believes that the family separation policy was a success. In his view, having the U.S. government permanently break up a few hundred Central American families is an acceptable price to pay for discouraging such people from exercising their legal right to seek asylum in the United States. Therefore, Miller is advising the president to adopt a modified version of the family separation policy known as binary choice. As the New York Times explains:
Under a binary choice policy, which is highly controversial, migrant parents would be given a choice of whether to voluntarily allow their children to be separated from them, or to waive their childs humanitarian protections so the family can be detained together, indefinitely, in jail-like conditions.
In response to this and other reports of Millers growing influence in the White House, Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted Monday, Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Yes, unquestionably.
However, I would take this one step further. When you look at the totality of his extreme positions and the unpopular policies he has pushed, one thing becomes clear. The people most punished by his hatred are women.
Miller is behind the reinstatement of the Mexico City Accord and the anti-abortion measures spouted by trump when he rages about Planned Parenthood being "abortion factories." Remember trump said that "there should be some form of punishment" for women who seek abortions AND the physicians who perform the procedure.
This administration has sided with all of the repugnant bills being pushed through GA, OH, MO and other states. For years, trump was on the record as being "pro-choice." What changed ? Stephen Miller (and Steve Bannon, Thomas Homan), and let's not forget Scott Lloyd, who was head of the Refugee Resettlement Office, who kept meticulous records of girls' menstrual cycles while they were in detention, for the explicit purpose of controlling their reproductive status, and denying them their right to abortion. He has since been removed. Who do you think recommended him for that position ? If you said Stephen Miller, you'd be right.
So next time you or someone else wonders about who it is that Stephen Miller wants to punish, remember it's not just immigrants, people of color, poor people, but also half of the world's population.
Botany
(70,516 posts)Donald Trump. It is clear that Miller has Trump's ear.
slater71
(1,153 posts)If they ever make a another movie about WWII that involves Germany, this guy has a part without a doubt. Playing a German soldier should be easy for this nasty little punk.
RVN VET71
(2,692 posts)It will never happen, of course, but it would be wonderful if Miller wound up in prison, on a cell block full of centralamericanos.
liberal N proud
(60,335 posts)Response to liberal N proud (Reply #24)
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pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)'he is the person behind this immigration chaos..."
That has been my question since this administration took office. Stephen Miller is a "shadow president". Miller should be front and center, but we focus on the distraction - tRump.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Blech.
Applegate
(96 posts)He panders to the worst Trumpian instincts.
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)we need to speak loudly for this bastard to go.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Criminals belong in prison in order to protect the rest of society. Stephen Miller has proposed and implemented crimes against innocent people and the entire GOP has aided.
certainot
(9,090 posts)next elections as push for their immigration racism - an epidemic now will serve as the example when thoae radio stations and social bots start screaming about ebola before nov 2020
orangecrush
(19,571 posts)Only a sick administration would give a sick person like Miller a position.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)His friend and mentor Richard Spencer for those unaware:
DBoon
(22,366 posts)and only managed to gain authority through right wing media.
He would be a nobody in a nothing job if AM talk radio didn't seize upon him and promote him from the beginning