Stephen Miller is outraged over birthright citizenship. His arguments are nonsense | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : This year, Trump has halted the US refugee program to admit only white South Africans (Afrikaaners), whom he asserts are victims of racial discrimination contrary to strong denials of the South African government of “white genocide”.At the time of John G Trump’s birth, his mother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, an immigrant from Germany, was not a naturalized citizen like her husband Frederick, a German immigrant.
50% : She was “paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country,” according to an Associated Press investigative report, though she says she complied with all visa laws.In the first eight months of 2025, ICE apprehended 4,843 spouses of US citizens, deporting more than 2,000.
49% : He has driven the strategies of aggressive mass deportations and harsh ICE tactics, restrictive immigration, and voter suppression schemes on the disproven assertion of mass illegal voting by undocumented immigrants.
47% : Mary was not a naturalized citizen at the birth of her first child, Maryanne, who was a citizen by virtue of her father.If ICE were operating in the past as it is now, the Trumps then might well have been in trouble.
44% : In the same period, ICE arrested the parents of approximately 14,450 US-birthright children.
42% : Elizabeth Christ Trump and her son’s wife, Mary MacLeod Trump, might have been hunted down by ICE agents.
39% : If ICE were roaming then under the orders of Stephen Miller, the Trump family, especially the unnaturalized women, could have been easy targets.Trump’s ancestors arrived in the US when the doors of immigration were wide open for Europeans with the only restrictions aimed at Chinese people.
37% : More than 9,700 of those children had at least one parent placed into an ICE detention facility, leading to the deportation of parents of more than 7,000 children.Stephen Miller’s policies, had they been in effect in the early 20th century, might have ended the American story of the Trumps.
33% : Miller helped draft Trump’s so-called “Save Act” to limit voter participation by requiring proof of US citizenship through often costly documents, in effect a new poll tax, a ploy which is paralyzing the Republican Congress.

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