The Fake & Fraudulent Prophets Around the President
September 4, 2026 |
Daniel Henderson
Miller is one of the advisors from Trump 1.0 who made it to Trump 2.0 without going to jail or having Trump turn on him. That is an accomplishment of sorts depending on how you look at it.
But more than that feat, Miller is perhaps the most dangerous, influential, and consequential policy advisory in the Trump White House. It is why we are now seeing masked ICE agents proliferating throughout the country targeting people for deportation simply by the color of their skin with phoney charges.
Stephen Miller, the chief architect of Trump’s administration immigration policies, has consistently advocated for some of the most extreme, xenophobic, and white nationalist-aligned policies in modern American history. From the Muslim ban to family separations at the border, Miller’s influence has been sweeping, deliberate, and ideologically driven.
Much of what is happening now in terms of cruelty and anti-rule of law can be attributed to Stephen Miller. In simple terms, Miller advocates for a white ethno-state and a cleansing of non-white people from the United States.
Before 2016, someone of Miller’s worldview would never have been invited on the staff of a President of either party. Now, he has reached the level of Deputy White House Chief of Staff. It is a remarkable climb to power for someone who is yet only 39 years old.
However, Miller remains somewhat elusive and behind the scenes. This exposé will explore Miller’s extremist rhetoric, the ideological roots of his anti-immigrant worldview, his alignment with white nationalist networks, and his influence in the Trump 2.0 Administration.
What you will discover is that Miller has been the primary architect and gatekeeper of white nationalist policies within the Trump administration. And he means business. His story is enigmatic.
Stephen Miller was born in 1985 in Santa Monica, California, to a Jewish family of immigrants who fled pogroms in Eastern Europe, Belarus, to be exact. Ironically, Miller’s own family may not have been allowed into the country under the immigration standards he promotes today.
David Glosser, Miller’s uncle, publicly condemned his nephew’s views in a 2018 op-ed in Politico, stating,
It’s a painful irony that someone with such a background would become a leading proponent of anti-immigrant policies.
After describing his family’s sojourn to the United States in the early 20th century, Glosser went on to make this condemning comment about his nephew, Stephen:
I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.
I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses— the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants — been in effect when Wolf-Leib [grandfather] made his desperate bid for freedom.
Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family likely would have been murdered by the Nazis along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol. I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.
How does someone whose family story is so rich with drama, immigrant heritage, and determination to reach the American Dream, become such an ardent nativist? It appears that when young Stephen was in school, he read Wayne LaPierre’s book, Guns, Crime, and Freedom (1994). Miller indicates this was his turn toward conservatism.
Growing up in predominantly liberal Santa Monica within a liberal Jewish household, Miller had little exposure to conservative thinking. But Guns, Crime, and Freedom and its vivid portrayal of societal decay resonated with him at a formative moment. He described the prose as forceful and not just persuasive, but transformative.
He was an avid reader in school. It was then that he began espousing nativist views in high school, protesting bilingual announcements and writing letters decrying multiculturalism. He once wrote a letter to his school paper asserting:
“Why are we being forced to listen to announcements in Spanish? … This is America. Speak English.”
Miller’s radicalization continued in college. Miller was introduced to important conservative and nativist leaders at Duke University, where he attended. He became radicalized through associations with far-right figures like Richard Spencer, a Duke graduate student at the time and David Horowitz, a well-established anti-Muslim conservative by then.
Spencer, who is a leading figure in the Alt-right white nationalist movement, said this of Miller: “Stephen is a true believer in the cause. I knew him well at Duke. He would write columns about immigration and race realism.”
Wait, Richard Spencer is the Grand Poohbah of the white nationalist greatest hits. He wrote in a National Policy Institute column in 2014,
“Immigration is a kind a proxy war—and maybe a last stand—for White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile.”
He also rejected the concept of the founding document, the Declaration of Independence, when he wrote,
“Our dream is a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans. It would be a new society based on very different ideals than, say, the Declaration of Independence.” — VICE, October 2013.
Yeah, that is the kind of guy you want your college-age child to cavort with.
Miller has also referred to the far-right commentator David Horowitz as his “mentor”, and Horowitz has proudly confirmed this. Horowitz, whose Center is anti-left-anti-Muslim-pro-Western chauvinism, is labeled a hate group by SPLC. Horowitz influenced Miller’s anti-Muslim and anti-leftist rhetoric, particularly the idea that diversity and liberalism are existential threats to Western civilization.
Miller served as the president of the Duke chapter of Students for Academic Freedom, founded by David Horowitz, and wrote conservative columns for the school newspaper.
Richard Spencer and David Horowitz…Talk about falling in with the wrong crowd. It is every parent’s nightmare. I’m not sure how conservatives can, with a straight face, declare that university campuses discriminate against them. Universities are the prime grooming territory for the radicalization of nativists.
Miller has always been fascinated by a racist, dystopian French novel, called the Camp of the Saints, about nonwhite immigrants overwhelming Western civilization. Miller cited and pushed The Camp of the Saints, published in 1973 and written by Jean Raspail, to Breitbart writers in leaked emails around 2015. Miller seemed quite interested and influenced by this novel.
“The key themes are actually white supremacy and the end of white civilization as the West knows it — infestation, invasion, hordes of nameless, faceless migrants who come to indeed invade the West and bring about its end,” says Chelsea Stieber, professor of French and Francophone studies at Catholic University of America.
In 2001, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described The Camp of the Saints as “widely revered by American white supremacists” and “a sort of anti-immigration analog to The Turner Diaries.” They attributed its popularity to the plot’s parallels with the white genocide conspiracy theory, today known as the “Great Replacement Theory.” One can easily see the policies Miller will come to embrace as a reaction to such apocalyptic theories.
Miller also had close ties to a few white supremacist publications, specifically VDARE and American Renaissance. The law center has labeled VDARE a “hate website” for its ties to white nationalists and publication of race-based science, and the Anti-Defamation League calls American Renaissance a “white supremacist journal.”
Katie McHugh — the former Breitbart editor who leaked Miller’s email messages sent from March 2015 to June 2016 — said in an interview in 2019 that “it’s easy to draw a clear line from the white supremacist websites where he is getting his ideas to current immigration policy.”
An immigration hardliner, Miller was a primary author 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.
All these policies emerged out of Miller’s radicalization from the mentors he embraced and the literature he consumed. Stephen Miller has found a way to turn right-wing, white supremacist conspiracy theories into actionable policy.
After graduating college, he pursued a career in politics first working as a press secretary for U.S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg. He became the communications director for Senator Jeff Sessions in 2009, who later became the United States attorney general under President Trump. In 2016, he joined Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, later joining the first Trump administration as a senior advisor to the president and the White House director of speechwriting.
Here are some examples of Miller’s influence on policy over the past 10 years:
As speechwriter for Trump, Miller crafted a fiery Phoenix rally speech calling immigration a threat to public safety and presenting a comprehensive 10-point plan, including ending catch-and-release, enforcing “criminal alien” zero tolerance, penalizing sanctuary cities, and curbing refugee admissions. In that speech, Miller said:
“Donald Trump is the candidate giving voice to a working-class citizenry who has been betrayed by their political leaders. He is the only one speaking out against mass immigration and globalization.”
This quote expresses a core nativist worldview: that “mass immigration” dilutes American identity and must be halted to protect a narrowly defined working class.
Miller and Steve Bannon were key architects behind the RAISE Act—legislation designed to slash legal immigration with a merit-based system, restrict family reunification, and dramatically reduce refugee intake. The bill was introduced by Senators Cotton and Perdue but ultimately stalled in the Senate.
Miller told The New York Times that in a second Trump term, the administration would orchestrate “the most spectacular migration crackdown,” including unprecedented mass roundups and detainment camps—even funded through the military budget to circumvent Congress.
Miller played a central role in Project 2025, a conservative governance plan that proposes dismantling DHS, privatizing immigration enforcement, increasing fees for asylum, and allowing arrests and removals “anywhere in the U.S.” Miller compared its scale to “building the Panama Canal.”
In a media appearance, Miller defended the administration’s deportation efforts, highlighting a Supreme Court victory on visas and citing cost savings from sending undocumented non-citizens abroad vs. prosecuting them domestically.
Miller’s attacks don’t stop with immigrants. As White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Miller has framed his broader domestic agenda as a fight against “cancerous, woke culture,” targeting diversity training, transgender rights, and public educational institutions that depend on federal funding. Speaking on Fox News, Miller said,
“We will confront the cancerous ideology of ‘wokeism’… we will defund it, discredit it, and eradicate it from the federal government.”
Miller’s expansion of his xenophobic ideology into broader culture war territory in attacking civil rights efforts, DEI programs, and educational reforms has tentacles into many arenas of Trump’s policy.
Stephen Miller’s career reveals a consistent and ideologically rooted campaign to redefine American identity through the lens of white nationalism, white supremacy, and nativism. His blend of ideological zeal and policy influence represents one of the most consequential and dangerous forces in U.S. politics today.
Now that Donald Trump has returned to power, Miller is the point person on immigration deportations, detention cruelty with even fewer constraints and a more extreme mandate, a chilling prospect for civil rights, democracy, and the future of immigration in America.
Take it from Miller’s uncle, David Glosser. He said of his nephew:
“The policies Stephen advocates are cruel, un-American, and a disgrace to our family history.”
Take heed.
