Sharing Family's Immigrant Story, Stephen Miller's Uncle Horrified by His Xenophobic, Hypocritical Nephew

Recounting their own family’s history as immigrants from eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, the uncle of Stephen Miller, one of the President’s Donald Trump’s top aides and the chief architect  of the administration’s hateful immigration agenda, has written a scathing op-ed in which he publicly confesses “his dismay and increasing horror” at the role his nephew has played in implementing the president’s xenophobic and cruel border policies.

“Trump and my nephew both know their immigrant and refugee roots. Yet, they repeat the insults and false accusations of earlier generations against these refugees to make them seem less than human.”
—David S. Glosser, uncle of Stephen MillerPublished in Politico on Monday, the piece by David S. Glosser—a retired neuropsychologist and the brother of Stephen’s mother, Miriam Miller—begins by offering a detailed account of how his forebears fled what their home city of Antopol, in what is now Belarus, amid anti-Jewish pogroms and increased threats to their lives. His great-grandfather, Wolf-Leib Glosser, made his way to the United States, near penniless, but was able to forge a living and ultimately bring over more family members.

However, Glosser writes, “I have watched with dismay and increasing horror 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.”

He continues:

While Glosser said his family’s history as Jewish immigrants was not free of bigotry or struggle, he argues that U.S. institutions and culture for the most part allowed his ancestors to be “left alone to live our lives and build the American dream.”