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The chairs of four congressional caucuses have issued a joint statement calling for the resignation of White House aide Stephen Miller, following explosive revelations that he promoted white nationalist writings in hundreds of emails and had close associations with at least one notorious hate group. Miller, the caucus chairs state, “is a white nationalist and he has no business serving in the White House.”
Leaked correspondence provided to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch revealed that Miller shared white nationalist propaganda in nearly 1,000 emails while working as an aide for then-Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, and had a special affinity for one anti-immigrant hate group in particular, the Tanton networks’ Center for Immigration Studies. Miller and CIS’s ties have continued: “CIS researchers say the White House has invited them into policymaking discussions.”
In their statement, the legislators—Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairs Mark Pocan and Pramila Jayapal, Congressional Black Caucus chair Karen Bass, Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Joaquin Castro, and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus chair Judy Chu—called for his “resignation without delay,” stating “It’s clearer than ever that Stephen Miller is a far-right white nationalist with a racist and xenophobic worldview. His beliefs are appalling, indefensible, and completely at odds with public service.”
Miller has been the architect of some of the Trump administration’s most vile and racist policies, which at their core have sought to dehumanize people of color and maximize their suffering. Many have known Miller is a white supremacist from the start, but have faced criticism for saying so from bad-faith actors. “No longer,” Jamelle Bouie writes in The New York Times. “These emails show that Miller’s views flow from his commitment to racist exclusion and the protection of a white demographic majority.”
Miller’s views should be career-ending, and that begins with getting him out of the White House. ”As documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Stephen Miller has embedded himself in white nationalist doctrine for years, including promoting racist propaganda from fringe sites like VDARE and InfoWars,” the caucus chairs said. “We feel like it is up to us to point out the obvious—someone who writes, talks, and governs like a white nationalist is in fact a white nationalist.”