The white nationalist websites cited by Trump aide Stephen Miller
WASHINGTON — Peter Brimelow, founder of the anti-immigration website VDARE, believes that diversity has weakened the United States, and that the increase in Spanish speakers is a “ferocious attack on the living standards of the American working class.”
“It’s not based on ‘We hold these truths to be self evident.’ It’s based on ‘What were the color of the people who wrote those words?’” But Katie McHugh — the former Breitbart editor who leaked the messages, some 900 emails sent from March 2015 to June 2016 — said in an interview last week that “it’s easy to draw a clear line from the white supremacist websites where he is getting his ideas to current immigration policy.”
The emails show a continued interest after his arrival in Washington. In the emails to Breitbart, a topic Miller referred to more than once was the Coolidge-era immigration law, which ushered in 40 years of lowered immigration levels with discriminatory quotas aimed at southern and Eastern Europeans, whom critics at the time attacked as nonwhite.
But a recent article by Jerry Kammer of the immigration studies center, which advocates restricting immigration, says Coolidge behaved in an “odious” fashion in embracing the national origin quotas. In an interview, Kammer said citing Coolidge as a lodestar for the restrictionist movement was “an unfortunate and unwise and highly dubious association.”
“In white nationalist circles, it invokes the theory of the Great Replacement and the fall of the white West,” she said, referring to the theory that white civilization will be overrun by dark-skinned invaders from the developing world. In an interview, Taylor said he did not know Miller personally and had never met him. Still, Taylor suggested that the kind of material Miller wanted to read about immigration policies did not exist on mainstream media sites.
“There is no question that these people were learning from each other, feeding off each other, and in concert in these viewpoints,” Laufer said.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Dems demand Trump aide resign over white nationalist-linked emailsStephen Miller, White House senior policy advisor for Donald Trump, is the subject of a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which presents emails in which Miller reportedly shared information on white nationalist literature and other controversial topics with Breitbart, a web site associated with ‘alt-right’ ideologies. Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter for the Southern Poverty Law Center, joins Joy Reid to discuss.
Read more »
A restaurant called 'Immigrant Food' just opened a block from the White HouseThe fast-casual spot caters to a weekday lunchtime crowd, with bowls blending cuisines from different cultures around the globe. It also gives diners a chance to donate to local immigrant advocacy groups
Read more »
White House release of April call summary backfires on TrumpThe idea that Trump actually cared about corruption in Ukraine has always been impossible to take seriously, but it's even more farcical now.
Read more »
Bolton and Trump Met Privately Over Withheld Aid, White House Aide TestifiedWASHINGTON -- John Bolton, President Donald Trump&39;s national security adviser, met privately with the president in August as part of a bid to persuade Trump to release $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine, a senior National Security Council aide told House impeachment investigators last
Read more »