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Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor who served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump. His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration. He was previously the communications director for then-Senator Jeff Sessions. He was also a press secretary for U.S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg. As a speechwriter for Trump, Miller helped write Trump's inaugural address. He was a key adviser from the early days of Trump's presidency. An immigration hardliner, Miller was a chief architect of Trump's travel ban, the administration's reduction of refugees accepted to the United States, and Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their parents. He prevented the publication of internal administration studies that showed that refugees had a net positive effect on government revenues. Miller reportedly played a central role in the resignation in April 2019 of Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, who he believed was insufficiently hawkish on immigration.As a White House spokesman, Miller on multiple occasions made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding widespread electoral fraud. Emails leaked in November 2019 showed that Miller had promoted articles from white nationalist publications VDARE and American Renaissance, and had espoused conspiracy theories. Miller is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists. Early life Miller was born on August 23, 1985, in Santa Monica, California, where he was raised, the second of three children in the Jewish family of Michael D. Miller, a real estate investor, and Miriam (née Glosser). His mother's ancestors—Wolf Lieb Glotzer and his wife, Bessie—emigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire's Antopol, in what is present-day Belarus, arriving in New York on January 7, 1903, on the German ship S.S. Moltke, thus escaping the 1903–06 anti-Jewish pogroms in Belarus and other parts of the Russian Empire. When his great-grandmother arrived in the U.S. in 1906, she spoke only Yiddish, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe.Miller has said he became a committed conservative after reading Guns, Crime, and Freedom, a book opposing gun control by Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association. While attending Santa Monica High School, Miller began appearing on conservative talk radio. In 2002, at the age of 16, Miller wrote a letter to the editor of the Santa Monica Outlook criticizing his school's response to the September 11 attacks; he wrote: "Osama bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School." While in high school, Miller cited Rush Limbaugh's book The Way Things Ought To Be as his favorite. Miller invited conservative activist David Horowitz to speak, first at the high school and later at Duke University; afterward he denounced the fact that neither institution would authorize the event. Miller was in the habit of "riling up his fellow [high school] classmates with controversial statements"; for instance, he told Latino students to speak only English. Both when running for student government at his high school and later as a university student he made several comments that belittled and ridiculed janitors.At 16, Miller called in to The Larry Elder Show, a conservative radio show, to complain about his high school's alleged lack of patriotism because it did not recite the Pledge of Allegiance. David Horowitz, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant extremist, published an essay by Miller, "How I Changed My Left-Wing High School", on his website. Horowitz has been described as an influential figure in Miller's early life.In 2007, Miller earned his bachelor's degree from Duke University, where he studied political science. He served as president of the Duke chapter of Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper. Miller gained national attention for his defense of the students who were wrongly accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse case. While attending Duke, Miller accused poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou of "racial paranoia" and described student organization Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán (MEChA) as a "radical national Hispanic group that believes in racial superiority."Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped co-member Richard Spencer, a Duke graduate student at the time, with fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007 between Peter Laufer, an open-borders activist and University of Oregon professor, and journalist Peter Brimelow, founder of the anti-immigration website VDARE. Spencer later became an important figure in the white supremacist movement and president of the National Policy Institute; he coined the term "alt-right". In a 2016 interview, Spencer said he had mentored Miller at Duke. Describing their close relationship, Spencer said that he was "kind of glad no one's talked about this", for fear of harming Trump. In a later blog post, he said the relationship had been exaggerated. Miller has said he has "absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer" and that he "completely repudiate[s] his views, and his claims are 100 percent false."Duke University's former senior vice president, John Burness, told The News & Observer in February 2017 that, while at Duke, Miller "seemed to assume that if you were in disagreement with him, there was something malevolent or stupid about your thinking—incredibly intolerant." According to Jane Stancill of The News & Observer, during the Duke lacrosse case, Miller's was the "lonely voice insisting that the players were innocent." History professor KC Johnson described Duke's atmosphere during the case as not "conducive to speaking up" and praised Miller's role in it: "I think it did take a lot of courage, and he has to get credit for that." Miller devoted more of his school paper column, "Miller Time," to the lacrosse scandal than any other topic. Career After graduating from college, Miller began to work as a press secretary for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party Republican, after David Horowitz connected them. Horowitz later helped Miller to get a position with John Shadegg in early 2009. In 2009, Miller began working for Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, who was later appointed United States attorney general. He rose to the position of Sessions' communications director. In the 113th Congress, Miller played a role in defeating the bipartisan Gang of Eight's proposed immigration reform bill. As communications director, Miller was responsible for writing many of the speeches Sessions gave about the bill. Miller and Sessions developed what Miller describes as "nation-state populism", a response to globalization and immigration that influenced Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. Miller also worked on Dave Brat's successful 2014 House campaign.... Discover the Stephen Miller popular books. 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  • My Dementia Diary synopsis, comments

    My Dementia Diary

    Tio Nason

    In January 2013, Tio Stib lost his sight and his wife began losing her mind. He was blind and she was diagnosed with  Alzheimer’s disease. Suddenly, the adventurous life they’d enj...

  • Crystals and their Properties synopsis, comments

    Crystals and their Properties

    Stephen Miller

    Crystals and their Properties lists crystals and the beneficial properties they can have on health and emotions. It is a reasonably short list of the most used and recognised cryst...

  • Stephen S. Bushko v. Miller Brewing synopsis, comments

    Stephen S. Bushko v. Miller Brewing

    Supreme Court of Wisconsin

    The issues raised by the parties on this review are several; however, we find the controlling issue to be whether the narrow cause of action for wrongful discharge established in B...

  • Queen of the Road synopsis, comments

    Queen of the Road

    Lois Phoenix

    Private detective Toni Marconi has one golden rule: always mix business with pleasure. Provided, that is, she can be in charge. When she sets out on the trail of a missing heiress ...

  • People State New York v. Stephen Miller synopsis, comments

    People State New York v. Stephen Miller

    Supreme Court of New York

    Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Duncan McNab, J.), rendered December 5, 1980, convicting defendant upon a jury verdict of assault in the first degree and crimina...

  • Remembering Kobe Bryant synopsis, comments

    Remembering Kobe Bryant

    Sean Deveney & Jerry West

    Let Stephen Curry, Charles Barkley, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller, and more, tell you what it was like to take the floor against one of the Greatest of All Time. With a Foreword by Jer...

  • The Little Book of World Mythology synopsis, comments

    The Little Book of World Mythology

    Hannah Bowstead

    Step into a world of gods, heroes and monstersThroughout history, mythologies have been fundamental to societies and cultures across the world. They are the collected stories of a ...

  • The King of Late Night synopsis, comments

    The King of Late Night

    Greg Gutfeld

    Greg Gutfeld, fivetime New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongueincheek essay collection that is part mem...

  • 14 Miles synopsis, comments

    14 Miles

    DW Gibson

    An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling ontheground account of the construction of President Trump’s border wall in San Diegoand the impact on the lives of local residents.In ...

  • Stephen Basso v. William A. Miller Et Al. synopsis, comments

    Stephen Basso v. William A. Miller Et Al.

    Court of Appeals of New York

    [40 N.Y.2d 233 Page 235] Ice Caves Mountain, Inc., operates a large scenic park as a tourist attraction on property leased from the Village of Ellenville. During the summer months...

  • Julie Dunleavy v. Stephen A. Miller synopsis, comments

    Julie Dunleavy v. Stephen A. Miller

    Court of Appeals of New York

    We granted certiorari to review the defendantpetitioners contention that New Mexico should withdraw adherence to the "sudden emergency" doctrine in negligence cases and discontinue...

  • Border Wars synopsis, comments

    Border Wars

    Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear

    Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide a detailed, “factbased account of what precipitated some of this administration’s more brazen assaults on immigration” (The Was...

  • Agent 110 synopsis, comments

    Agent 110

    Scott Jeffrey Miller

    The “lively and engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) story of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles built an underground network determined to take down Hitler and destroy the Third Reic...

  • Perry Stephen Miller v. State Indiana synopsis, comments

    Perry Stephen Miller v. State Indiana

    Court of Appeals of Indiana

    This is an appeal from the Superior Court of Hamilton County wherein the defendant was charged by an affidavit with the crimes of kidnapping, sodomy, rape, and automobile banditry....

  • Sexual Strategy synopsis, comments

    Sexual Strategy

    Felice De Vere

    Heleyna has everything a girl could possibly want a career, independence, and a very sexy partner, Troy, who is always up for a threesome. Yet she also harbours a burning sexual c...

  • 1001 Basketball Trivia Questions synopsis, comments

    1001 Basketball Trivia Questions

    Dale Ratermann & Brian Brosi

    Basketball has evolved to one of the most commonly played sports worldwide. Regardless of how well you think you know basketball, there’s bound to be questions in this book to chal...

  • Amigo imaginario synopsis, comments

    Amigo imaginario

    Stephen Chbosky

    Christopher tiene siete años.Christopher es nuevo en la ciudad.Christopher tiene un amigo imaginario.Podemos tragarnos nuestro miedo o dejar que nos devore. Kate Reese es madre ...

  • Tapping Into Business Success synopsis, comments

    Tapping Into Business Success

    Stephen Miller

    As Einstein and other notable scientist have demonstrated, everything is based around a concept of energy. String theory has energy at the basis of all matter and therefore all asp...

  • Stephen Lindsey and Others, Plaintiffs in Error v. the Lessee of Thomas B. Miller synopsis, comments

    Stephen Lindsey and Others, Plaintiffs in Error v. the Lessee of Thomas B. Miller

    United States Supreme Court

    This is a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment of the circuit court, for the district of Ohio. The plaintiff in the court below prosecuted an action of ejectment to recover ...

  • People State New York v. Stephen Miller synopsis, comments

    People State New York v. Stephen Miller

    Supreme Court of New York

    Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Duncan McNab, J.), rendered December 5, 1980, convicting defendant upon a jury verdict of assault in the first degree and crimina...