Stephen Miller’s White Nationalism Is the Guiding Strategy of the Modern Republican Party

Before border-patrol agents separated migrant families, before the White House declared a ban on Muslims, before the U.S. Army deployed troops to the border, before the Trump administration’s raids, restrictions, and deportations, Steven Miller e-mailed Breitbart.

He was excited. It was March 2015. Miller, then an aide to the notoriously anti-immigration Alabama senator Jeff Sessions, had discovered the perfect occasion to condemn immigration. “They opened the Ted Kennedy center today in Boston,” Miller wrote to editor Katie McHugh. “Another opportunity to revisit the ’65 immigration law.” At the instigation of Miller, Breitbart published an article disparaging Kennedy’s “ruinous” immigration policy. The law in question was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Hart-Celler Act. And the bill ended race-based limits on immigration, like the Immigration Act of 1924, which enacted severe national quotas and was based on the junk-science eugenics movement. Yet, according to Breitbart, the 1965 bill didn’t represent a new era of American public policy freer of discrimination but a new generation of foreigner-driven rape, murder, and unemployment across the United States.