Stephen Miller is an American government official who serves as a senior advisor for policy to President Donald Trump. His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration. Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of extremists. Miller gained national attention for his defense of the students who were wrongly accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse case.
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Stephen Miller is an American government official who serves as a senior advisor for policy to President Donald Trump. His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration. Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of extremists. Miller was a chief architect of Trump’s travel ban, the administration’s reduction of refugees accepted to the United States, and Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents. Miller reportedly played a central role in the resignation in April 2019 of Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who he believed was insufficiently hawkish on immigration. As a White House spokesman, Miller has on multiple occasions made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding widespread electoral fraud. Miller has said he became a committed conservative after reading Guns, Crime, and Freedom, a book opposing gun control by Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association. Miller gained national attention for his defense of the students who were wrongly accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse case. While attending Duke, Miller accused poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou ofracial paranoia. Miller described student organization Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán as a radical national Hispanic group that believes in racial superiority. Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007 between an open-borders activist and Peter Laubfer, a University of Oregon professor and journalist. Miller later became an important figure in the white supremacist movement and coined the term National Policy Institute; he later repudiate his relationship with Mr Lauffer.
In a later blog post, he said he has said the relationship had been exaggerated and that he has “absolutely no fear of harming Mr Trump” He has been a key adviser since the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency. He was previously the communications director for then-Senator Jeff Sessions, and was also a press secretary for U. S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg. He is the son of Michael D. Miller, a real estate investor, and Miriam. His mother’s ancestors—Wolf Lieb Glotzer and his wife, Bessie—emigrated to the U.S. from the Russian Empire’s Antopol, in what is present-day Belarus, arriving in New York on January 7, 1903, on the German ship S. Moltke, thus escaping the 1903–06 anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus. Miller’s great-grandmother arrived in the US in 1906, and she spoke only Yiddish, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. In 2002, at the age of 16, Miller wrote a letter to the editor of the Santa Monica Outlook criticizing his school’s response to the September 11 attacks; he wrote: “Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School.” In 2007, Miller received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, where he studied political science. He served as president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz’s Students for Academic Freedom and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper.
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