Who is Stephen Miller?
Who Is?
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🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Who is Stephen Miller? One of three Senior Advisors to the President--along with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump--Miller is arguably the person who has had the greatest impact on the most people. Policy that Miller has devised, and, thanks to a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, by in large been able to enact, has changed how immigration works in the United States. But that's not all: as one of President Trump's favorite speechwriters, Miller has crafted much of the language that brings "Make America Great Again" to life. On this episode of Who Is, Sean Morrow explores how a Jewish kid from liberal Santa Monica became an immigration hardliner, and dives deep into the history of immigration--and immigration control--in the United States. Airs 02/04/2020.
- Marisa Franco, director and co-founder of Mijente, a political, digital, and grassroots hub for Latinx organizing and movement building
- Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA, and the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
- Nick Miroff, immigration enforcement and Department of Homeland Security reporter at the Washington Post
- Laurie Winer, co-founder and editor of the LA Review of Books
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| 0:00.0 | In 2006, Stephen Miller, then a college student, took the stage at Duke University, representing |
| 0:07.0 | the Duke chapter of students for academic freedom. |
| 0:10.0 | Making this event happen was not easy. |
| 0:14.0 | We beseeched many departments, many institutions at Duke University for funding, many of them |
| 0:24.2 | wanted nothing to do with us. Those departments which rejected our requests are the |
| 0:32.6 | literature department, the philosophy Department, the Institute for U.S. critical studies. |
| 0:46.3 | I see that many of you are happy that people on this campus don't want to support |
| 0:52.3 | a debate of ideas. |
| 1:01.1 | In the background, you can hear classmates who had gone to protest the event snickering at Miller. |
| 1:04.7 | But he smiles. He likes it. |
| 1:09.6 | 13 years later, he stands at a White House press briefing. |
| 1:14.6 | Remember those? He's senior advisor to the president, addressing the press. Let's join mid-argument with CNN's Jim Acosta. |
| 1:18.6 | This whole notion of, well, they have to learn English |
| 1:21.6 | before they get to the United States. |
| 1:23.6 | Are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia? |
| 1:25.6 | Jim, actually, I honestly say I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people |
| 1:33.3 | from Great Britain and Australia would know English. |
| 1:35.3 | It's actually, it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind, |
| 1:42.3 | no, this is an amazing, this is an amazing moment. |
| 1:45.9 | This is an amazing moment that you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English. |
| 1:51.3 | It's so insulting to millions of hardworking immigrants who do speak English from all over the world. |
| 1:57.9 | Jim, have you honestly, Jim, have you honestly never met an immigrant from another |
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