In the past three years, Stephen Miller is perhaps the least publicly exposed yet most prolific policymaker within the Trump administration regarding immigration laws.
He jockeyed himself to be placed on the Domestic Policy Council where he has significantly reshaped the council's deliberations on immigration. As an unelected official in this position, he is close to President Trump and does not answer to congressional oversight.
The Southern Poverty Law Center explains that “Hatewatch [a blog that monitors activities of the American radical right] exposes the racist source material that has influenced Miller’s visions of policy. That source material, as laid out in his emails to Breitbart, includes white nationalist websites, a ‘white genocide’-themed novel in which Indian men rape white women, xenophobic conspiracy theories, and eugenics-era immigration laws that Adolf Hitler lauded in ‘Mein Kampf.’”
While President Trump has the right to employ advisors as he sees fit, his reliance on Stephen Miller's perspectives and opinions can be seen as a road map to understanding where our current president's belief systems lie in regard to the topic of immigration issues.
Brent Larsen, Millcreek
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