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US lawmakers want Trump aide Stephen Miller fired over white nationalism emails
- In hundreds of emails to far-right Breitbart website, Miller shares links and asserts a causal connection between immigrants and violence
- Miller was an architect of the presidential decree barring nationals of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the US
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Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s most radical advisers, is known for his unswerving defence of a resolutely anti-immigrant policy. But a recently leaked trove of emails also shows him appearing to promote white supremacist views – prompting 25 Jewish members of Congress to demand his dismissal.
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In a letter dated Friday, the lawmakers – all Democrats – wrote: “As Jewish members of Congress, we are calling on you to immediately relieve White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller of all government responsibilities and dismiss him from your administration.”
They added: “His documented support for white nationalist and virulently anti-immigrant tropes is wholly unacceptable.”
More than 100 Democratic members of Congress had issued a similar plea after the emails were published last month by a non-profit association that monitors hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC).
In all, the SPLC obtained more than 900 emails sent in 2015 and 2016 by Miller to editors at the far-right Breitbart news website.
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