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Stephen Miller Shows Off His Xenophobia: Claims Immigrants Are Stealing the English Language

Stephen Miller is not worth a long piece filled with in-depth context and analysis, there simply isn’t anything relevant to be had. In any other administration, Stephen Miller would have had to resign in disgrace for having cited information gleaned from white nationalist websites. In the Trump administration, such an event is called “Tuesday,” or whatever day of the week it happened to be. Not only did Miller not resign, he continually climbed the ladder in the Trump administration, eventually practically overseeing all immigration matters.

Need we mention that only racists visit white nationalist websites? How many readers of this column have found themselves absorbed in a white nationalist site and want to use some of the data and analysis? None. But Miller did.

That is the only context we need. This morning the New York Times put out an opinion piece, it is just an opinion, arguing that one shouldn’t need citizenship to vote. If you are legally present as a Dreamer, you should have the right to vote according to the article.

Of course, whenever a sensible idea is floated regarding immigration (Dreamers have been here their whole lives), Stephen Miller will find himself on Fox news. From C&L:

Miller attacked Susan Rice for wanting to grant citizenship to Dreamers, who have lived in America their entire lives, even having served in the U.S. military.

How are they “engaged in an attack on the English language,” as he claims?

Miller, who wrote the most xenophobic speeches in American history, warns that people of this country are being “deprived of their language.”

A lot of immigrants have come into this country over the last forty years, the number of years that this particular immigrant has lived in the United States. With respect to Latin American immigrants, we can only think of words they’ve added to English, not taken. Por favor, used all over the place as everyone knows “Please,” same with gracias. Everyone know “donde?” and of course, the easiest, playa, cerveza, burrito grande, and all the other great ones. It is not like we’ve forgotten the English words, the Spanish words supplement our language. The same must be true for those living in other areas where immigrants speak another language such as Japanese on the west coast and Hindi.

Stephen Miller is a racist and trying to scare the audience. The audience doesn’t care if it’s true, it just sounds good enough, they’ll use it. The good news is that Miller has so little to go by nowadays that he’s down to arguments that sound ridiculous even upon first hearing them.

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