In 1908, New York police commissioner Theodore Bingham wrote an extended piece for The North American Review. It was entitled, “Foreign Criminals in New York.” In it, Bingham derided his own city’s immigrants, whom he labeled criminals “of exotic origin.” While Bingham clearly viewed all immigrants with suspicion and contempt, he reserved his most savage…
Stephen Miller sounded every bit like an unhinged far right wing culture warrior Thursday when he shouted at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the need to build President Trump’s border wall “NOW!” But at least he dumped the spray-on hair experiment. The pugnacious Jewish White House aide, known for his hardline views on immigration, was showing…
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller sported a temporary new look on CBS’s Face the Nation, courtesy of a spray can. In what appears to be an attempt at covering his receding hairline, Miller, known for his hardline anti-immigration policies, sprayed — rather unevenly — something to give the illusion of closely cropped hair. But,…
A queer dance party raged outside White House senior adviser Stephen Miller’s housing complex Wednesday night. Activist group WERK for Peace organized a twerk-filled protest outside CityCenterDC for Miller’s work on the Trump administration’s immigration policy, DCist reported. The group launched the #WerkNotWalls campaign to call attention to the grim treatment of migrants and refugees…
These Loyalists Have Changed American Politics (For Better or Worse) Sheldon Adelson, Michael Cohen, David Friedman, Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, Steven Mnuchin, Ivanka Trump Ever since Jimmy Carter served in the White House, every presidential administration has appointed a high-level official to serve as the authorized liaison with America’s organized Jewish community. Until the Trump…
Leading up to the midterm elections, President Trump ramped up his campaign against immigration with a push from Stephen Miller, his chief policy adviser on the issue, the New York Times reported. Remembering how stoking fears of immigration helped his 2016 presidential run, Trump looked to Miller these last two weeks for tactics in hopes…
You would not recognize America without HIAS. The 137-year-old Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society was relatively unknown to the mainstream until the horrific events of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting thrust it into headlines this week. The terrorist who killed 11 Jews worshiping on Shabbat morning in Squirrel Hill was reportedly “obsessed” with the organization, which once…
A California teacher was suspended after revealing that Stephen Miller ate glue in her third grade class, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Nikki Fiske, a teacher in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, has been placed on “home assignment” as the district decides what to do following her first-person account of 8-year-old Miller published…
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