Stephen Miller's influence on Trump policy

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He's one of Donald Trump's most trusted advisors, and the man behind some of the White House's most controversial policies, like the "Muslim travel ban"...   Here's what you need to know about Stephen Miller.

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00:00It is a policy of dehumanization laid at the feet of Stephen Miller.

00:04Mr. Miller wants to restrict legal immigration at a time we have a worker shortage.

00:09The lead xenophobe, anti-immigrant, and architect of the

00:13racist policies that are affecting immigration right now, Stephen Miller.

00:30My name is Stephen Miller. I'm Mr. Trump's policy adviser.

00:35Stephen Miller is the most powerful advisor in the White House right now.

01:05He has his hands on everything from the way that the president is talking today about

01:21Black Lives Matter, you know, conflating anti-racist protesters and social justice

01:27protesters with agitators and anarchists who want to destroy America.

01:31So even though he is known as the architect of Trump's immigration policy and the architect

01:38of his speeches, he is having a huge influence on the reelection strategy of 2020.

01:43Is it important to you that your children can grow up in a safe community?

01:48Is it important to you that the United States has a border?

01:52Is it important to you that we keep terrorists out of this country?

01:56I want strong borders and I want safe communities.

02:00I impose the travel ban on jihadist regions to keep terrorists out of our country.

02:18Trump likes to talk about how his immigration policy is about keeping out criminals and

02:23cartels, how it's about national security. But when you look at the man who is shaping

02:27his immigration policy, which is Stephen Miller, he is pulling policy ideas and policy

02:33proposals directly from think tanks that were created by eugenicists who believe in

02:38population control for non-white people in order to primarily target legal immigration.

02:44And this is why you see a disproportionate impact on,

02:48for example, the refugee admission system and the asylum system.

02:52The effect of this switching to a skills based system and ending unfettered chain migration

03:00would be over time you would cut net migration in half.

03:04And replace visa lotteries and chain migration with immigration systems

03:11based on skill and talent and merit.

03:14There's also white supremacist literature. He reads websites like American Renaissance,

03:20which is a white supremacist website that pumps out misleading and false

03:25crime statistics. And Stephen Miller inserts these statistics and these anecdotes of gruesome

03:32graphic crimes allegedly committed by migrants into Trump's speeches to create the perception

03:38in the American public that there's this existential threat in this country in the form

03:44of people of color.

03:45So we have people coming in to this country, some great people, some really bad people,

03:53too. And I mean murders and I mean rapists. I mean really bad people.

03:57Stephen Miller has found ways to bypass the bureaucracy. He often will reach deep into

04:04the bowels of the Department of Homeland Security and call up low ranking officials

04:09to issue his orders, completely bypassing the normal policymaking process in order to

04:14make sure that his what he wants and what Donald Trump wants is executed, regardless

04:19of what the national security experts are saying.

04:31It's very important for people to understand that this is far bigger than the immigration

04:35issue. A lot of White House officials told me that Stephen Miller's laser focus on demonizing

04:41communities of color left the country more vulnerable to a range of real threats,

04:46you know, from cyber warfare to domestic terrorism, right wing extremism and the pandemic.

04:52And this is because Stephen Miller repeatedly disregarded the input of national security

04:57and public health officials in order to push through his white nationalist agenda.

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