Stephen Miller Torched by Own Uncle in Scathing Op-Ed: I Watch Him With ‘Dismay and Increasing Horror’

“Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.” That’s the first line of a fiery article published at Politico Monday morning in which White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller is rhetorically brutalized by a member of his own family.

Miller, architect of the infamous “Muslim ban” among other Donald Trump immigration-related policy positions, has lost touch with his roots, says Miller’s uncle Dr. David S. Glosser.

Glosser’s sister is Stephen Miller’s mother. And Miller’s maternal grandfather Izzy Glosser is the object of Dr. Glosser’s criticism of his nephew.

He tells the story of how Stephen Miller’s family came to America, first a single family unit fleeing “anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czar’s army” in Belarus, then money sent home to bring more family to America. Those who came second included the Glosser family. The family into which Stephen Miller was born.

“I have watched with dismay and increasing horror,” writes Glosser as he brings the coming-to-America story into its political relevance, “as my nephew, who is an educated man and 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.”

Glosser argues that if Miller’s policy prescriptions had come to pass in the time when their family was seeking our shore, they would have been turned away, that Stephen Miller himself would not be here in America today.

“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 made his desperate bid for freedom. The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the “America First” nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees. Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family would likely 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.”

Glosser goes on in detail about specific policy, and offers other tragic examples of policy gone wrong. He argues that Miller and Trump have “become numb to the resultant human tragedy and blind to the hypocrisy” of their decisions and positions.

The full article, including Glosser’s appeal to American voters, can be read in full at Politico, here.

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