On July 15, 2015, Stephen Miller, at that time an aide to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, sent an email to Breitbart writer Katie McHugh with the subject line: “more lies about new america.” In the body of the email was a link to a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “The Mythical Connection Between Immigrants and Crime.”
Miller’s email is one of several highlighted in the fourth installment of a series by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has analyzed more than 900 emails between Miller and editors at Breitbart News ahead of the 2016 presidential election. After dismissing as “lies” the conclusions of Riley’s op-ed, Miller subsequently pressed McHugh and others at Breitbart to devote more coverage to crimes committed by immigrants, particularly those of color, describing individual stories about alleged terror plots by Muslim refugees and arrests of immigrants from Latin America as evidence of larger trends resulting from lax immigration policies.
McHugh told the SPLC that she was introduced to Miller by Breitbart editors in 2015 “with an understanding he would influence the direction of her reporting.” Many of the emails show how Miller not only suggested topics for Breitbart to cover, but in some cases dictated the specific framing, source material and even homepage placement of articles that later showed up on the website.
The first part of the series, which was published on Nov. 12, highlighted references in Miller’s emails to white nationalist websites like VDare, the French dystopian anti-Muslim novel “Camp of the Saints” and other materials, figures and language often associated with white nationalists and far-right extremism.
Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, also expressed little surprise over Miller’s references to websites and literature “that feature anti-immigrant rhetoric,” given his well-established views on immigration.
JadeJensen29 🤔'... hard line ...' which really means 'overtly fascist racism'. Stephen Miller hates a group of people so much, he happily cages their kids and indefinitely jails them. Sounds like tyranny to me. ImpeachTrumpPence
slpng_giants Miller's Grandparents were Jewish immigrants fleeing the Holocaust, look at what they spawned as a thank you to America for allowing the downtrodden to wash up shore.
Illegal is illegal, oh well
slpng_giants “Hard-line views”?! I think you misspelled “white supremacist views”. Or were you trying to spell “racist views”? Do better . Words matter.
slpng_giants its statistically proven that where immigrants settle that the crime rate reduces
Can we just drop cagey language like 'hard-line views on immigrants'? He's a white supremacist. Call him that. Use the words.
slpng_giants This evil bastard...
And?