The calls for the removal of white supremacist Stephen Miller from the White House continue to escalate, after nearly 60 civil and labor rights groups issued a joint statement calling on the radical to be fired from the White House, saying, “Recent exposure of his deep-seated racism provides further proof that he is unfit to serve and should immediately leave his post.”
That recent exposure has been a series of reports from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch documenting the fact that Miller is a white supremacist. “In all 900 emails,” HuffPost reported, “SPLC reporter Michael Hayden noted he was ‘unable to find any examples of Miller writing sympathetically or even in neutral tones about any person who is nonwhite or foreign-born.’”
It was bad enough that the teenaged Miller made the lives of classmates of color as miserable as possible (as documented by Univision in 2017), but as senior adviser for policy for the president of the United States, Miller’s “white nationalist ideology has resulted in policies—and violent acts—that actively harm immigrants, people of color, and marginalized communities” across our nation and at the southern border, the groups said.
“These policies include the devastating Muslim ban, efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a ban on transgender people serving in the military, and the family separation policy that has led to the cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrant families in detention centers throughout our nation,” the groups, which span from the Matthew Shepard Foundation to the SEIU to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, continued.
The groups also linked Miller’s “racist, deadly agenda” to recent hate crimes and deadly terror attacks targeting communities that have been under scrutiny by this administration. Miller, the nearly 60 groups said, “represents white supremacy, violent extremism, and hate—all ideologies that are antithetical to the fundamental values that guide our democracy. Allowing him to remain a White House advisor is a betrayal of our national ideals of justice, inclusion, and fairness.”
The groups join the 80 House Democrats so far who have also called for Miller to leave the White House, with California Rep. Mark Takano saying, “He should resign, and if he doesn’t, he should be fired.” The White House’s response in general, however, has been to laughably claim that repeating Miller’s own words back to him is somehow anti-Semitic.