Stephen Miller to be Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff

[Superbadbrutha]

I don’t love him. I’ve never even met him.

You should, he is your kinda guy.

 

[Lisa558]

You should, he is your kinda guy.

Thank you.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Thank you.

Don't thx me, I don't advocate for racist.

 

[SweetTea]

Stephen Miller, former President Donald Trump’s senior aide, delivered a rousing speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, the warm up act to Trump himself.

The worst you could say about it is Miller scapegoated one group — immigrants — for all of America’s ills. The best you could say is: We’ve been warned.

If there was any doubt what a second Trump term in office would mean for America, Miller, who Vox called “the architect” of Trump’s most effective anti-immigration policies, made his vision crystal clear.

Miller, who co-wrote Trump’s 2017 inaugural “American carnage” speech, only spoke for five minutes, but it was long enough for him to paint a picture of an America overrun with violent immigrants who steal jobs and rape girls.

Only Trump would allow Americans “to live in a country where criminal gangs cannot just cross our border and rape and murder with impunity,” he told the crowd. “It happens every day.”

Except: It doesn’t. In fact, immigrants in the U.S. commit less violent crime than citizens, and are far more likely to be victims of rape than perpetrators of it.

But that’s not the point. Nor — sorry to disappoint — is the point that the Trump rally evoked a Nazi rally from 1939.

True, Miller did say on Sunday that “America is for Americans and Americans only!” a slogan that echoes, “Germans for Germans only” which the Nazis used to separate out (and slaughter) Poles, Jews and other undesirables.

But history rarely maps neatly onto the present. What’s scary is not that Miller, unleashed by Trump 2.0, would be like Josef Goebbels. It’s that he would be like Stephen Miller.

Miller, the Jewish descendant of immigrants, spoke on Sunday in an arena with Israeli flags hung from the rafters. Gays for Trump, Latinos for Trump, Blacks for Trump all cheered his racist rhetoric.

To understand how troubling Miller’s MSG speech is, you need to watch a longer and more detailed talk he gave earlier this year at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he laid out his vision for implementing the deportation of 11 million illegal immigrants.

“You would establish large scale staging grounds for removal flight,” he said. “So you grab illegal immigrants, and then you move them to the staging grounds. And that’s where the planes are waiting for federal law enforcement to move those illegals home.”

Miller called for deploying the military to the southern border “with an impedance and denial mission,” and for “repatriation” flights from the U.S. to Mexico.

On Sept. 15 he tweeted the condensed version, in all caps:

“THE TRUMP PLAN TO END THE INVASION OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA. REMIGRATION!

Miller speaks with calm, passionate authority when he outlines these plans, and experts don’t doubt that if Trump is elected, he has the bureaucratic acumen to at least try it.

Inside the first Trump administration, he spearheaded measures that, he promised, would “turn off the faucet” to immigrant labor. He boasted that he “completely shut down” the U.S. asylum system once COVID-19 hit.

Pushback from lawsuits, intransigent bureaucrats and protesters only honed his strategy.

“It would be a mistake to underestimate Miller’s fanatical commitment to getting as far toward that goal as he can,” Andrew Prokop wrote last month in Vox. “He is on a mission — this has been the driving cause of his adult life.”

Prof. Daniel Kanstroom, an immigration law expert and author of the book Deportation Nation, said on the radio program On Point that “there really is no way to implement this kind of massive program without creating what amounts to a police state.”

Kanstroom pointed out the broad category of illegal immigrants includes people who were brought here as children and have spent decades working and raising families of their own. Others derided and dismissed by Trump and Miller have asylum applications pending or have temporary protected status.

The Washington Post has reported, too, that Trump backer Elon Musk worked illegally in the U.S. in 1995 after quitting school.

“You’re going to have to be checking everybody’s I.D.’s,” Kanstroom said. “How do you tell who is an immigrant and who is a citizen? People don’t come with labels on their foreheads.”

Not to beat a dead ancestor, but it’s worth remembering that Miller’s own great-grandfather, Nison Miller, a persecuted Jew in Eastern Europe, sought refuge here in 1904.

Now he wants to set up checkpoints, do mass roundups, build internment camps and deputize local police forces to hunt down immigrants. To redeploy federal agents from, say, FEMA, to border control, and spend more an estimated $315 billion doing it all.

It may play well at the Garden, but the reality is simply chilling.

Not immigrants...ILLEGAL immigrants. Why do Democrats continue to misrepresent the facts?

 

[Frankenstein]

Don't thx me, I don't advocate for racist.

Why do you say he is racist?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Why do you say he is racist?

Racist, white supremacist take your pick.

 

[Frankenstein]

Racist, white supremacist take your pick.

Why

 

[marvin martian]

Don't thx me, I don't advocate for racist.

Of course you do. You're one of the most abhorrent racists on this board. Top three.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Why

Why is he a racist? You'll have to ask him.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Of course you do. You're one of the most abhorrent racists on this board. Top three.

I point out racist, how does that make me a racist? Does that mean I am not one of the good ones?

 

[Lisa558]

Why is he a racist? You'll have to ask him.

Being against illegal immigrants streaming into this country and soaking resources needed by honest citizens is common sense. Nothing racist about it.

 

[justoffal]

Look at the glut of new wackos to the board.....
We are out of tissues

Apparently there must be a sale on socks.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Being against illegal immigrants streaming into this country and soaking resources needed by honest citizens is common sense. Nothing racist about it.

No, it's much more than that. If it was just about illegal immigration I wouldn't have a problem with him.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Hopefully this administration will deport all the minorities.

Hey look, the Russian trolls are still getting paid.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Not immigrants...ILLEGAL immigrants. Why do Democrats continue to misrepresent the facts?

Wrong. He clearly said he would deport entire families, even if someone them were US citizens.

See what you voted for? Someone and something that doesn't even exist. Embarrassed, yet? Are you embarrassed at all that you have been brainwashed with disinformation?

 

[SweetTea]

Wrong. He clearly said he would deport entire families, even if someone them were US citizens.

Do you support family separation or prefer to ignore our laws and just allow people who are here illegally to stay? I'm pretty sure I know the answer, as do people from other countries who come across the border illegally, thus why they keep coming. You guys just don't get it.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

A white supremacist as Deputy Chief of Staff…..

In a Trump administration, who would have seen that coming.

Who would have guessed you have zero evidence Miller is a white supremacist?

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Well of course. One thing the Trump supporters definitely don't seem to understand is that Trump is the one being conned by the White Christian nationalists. Not the other way around.

White. Nothing wrong with that.

Christian. Nothing wrong with that.

Nationalist. Nothing wrong with that.

What’s your point?

 

[lennypartiv]

White. Nothing wrong with that.

Christian. Nothing wrong with that.

Nationalist. Nothing wrong with that.

What’s your point?

Exactly. Libs cry wolf when there's no wolf there.

 

[airplanemechanic]

OMG how awful! Trump puts someone on his staff who is white, loves God and country.

I think I need a safe space now to get over this......