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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,459 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 10:05 PM Jan 2019

Stephen Miller Said He'd Be 'Happy' With No Refugees

Donald Trump’s senior policy adviser Stephen Miller reportedly once told former White House communications aide Cliff Sims that he would be content if “not a single” refugee ever entered the United States again.

“I would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil,” Miller is quoted as saying in Sims’s new book, titled Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House.

When asked about Miller's quote during a press briefing on Monday afternoon, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she is "not aware of any statement like that that Stephen Miller has ever made, and it's certainly not the policy of the administration."

Sims also described how many members of the Trump administration, including Miller, would dismiss the successes of immigrants while “going out of their way to vilify all immigrants with stories of the bad apples.”

“Any time a refugee or immigrant committed a gruesome crime in the United States, for example, Stephen Miller would come down to the [communications] office demanding a press release about it,” Sims wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stephen-miller-said-hed-be-happy-with-no-refugees/ar-BBSRVSu?li=BBnbcA1

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Stephen Miller Said He'd Be 'Happy' With No Refugees (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
Weren't his ancestors refugees? bitterross Jan 2019 #1
The "once in" no one else issue has been constant in American history. Blue_true Jan 2019 #2
A sick and damaged man. harumph Jan 2019 #3

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
2. The "once in" no one else issue has been constant in American history.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 10:22 PM
Jan 2019

The English didn't want the Irish coming in, who didn't want the Italians coming in, who didn't want the Greeks coming on, who didn't want early Russian Jewish people coming in. Once a group comes in and become mainstream, they try to help close the door on others. Fear of crime and new immigrants living on the public's dime are consistently two of the reasons to keep immigrants out.

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