Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle.

[Arkansas Granny]

Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration. It begins at the turn of the 20th century in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czar’s army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America.


He set foot on Ellis Island on January 7, 1903, with $8 to his name. Though fluent in Polish, Russian, and Yiddish he understood no English. An elder son, Nathan, soon followed. By street corner peddling and sweat-shop toil Wolf-Leib and Nathan sent enough money home to pay off debts and buy the immediate family’s passage to America in 1906. That group included young Sam Glosser, who with his family settled in the western Pennsylvania city of Johnstown, a booming coal and steel town that was a magnet for other hard-working immigrants. The Glosser family quickly progressed from selling goods from a horse and wagon to owning a haberdashery in Johnstown run by Nathan and Wolf-Leib to a chain of supermarkets and discount department stores run by my grandfather, Sam, and the next generation of Glossers, including my dad, Izzy. It was big enough to be listed on the AMEX stock exchange and employed thousands of people over time. In the span of some 80 years and five decades, this family emerged from poverty in a hostile country to become a prosperous, educated clan of merchants, scholars, professionals, and, most important, American citizens.

What does this classically American tale have to do with Stephen Miller? Well, Izzy Glosser is his maternal grandfather, and Stephen’s mother, Miriam, is my sister.

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.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351

[meow2u3]

1. Stephen Miller is the black sheep of his family

His parents are both Democrats and he's taken those extreme right positions in part, if not in whole, to spite his family.

Isn't he considered a "self-hating Jew"? Just asking Jewish DUers.

[JI7]

8. no, i think his own parents are right wing leaning

there was something out recently on that. people assumed they were democrats based on their background and where they lived. and because of other family members who are democrats.

but people who knew the parents say they were conservatives.

[meow2u3]

10. I read that his parents were Democrats

I might have been mistaken.

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[awesomerwb1]

3. Say it uncle, say it

that POS Stephen Miller is a racist.

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R. Glad Mr. Glosser is speaking out.

[Corgigal]

5. So sad for the little incel family.

To be Jewish and have a family member act this way, horrific.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Hopefully Miller's legacy will be known as the modern American Goebbels

Frog marched out in cuffs, tried and convicted of crimes against humanity

Fuck that little weasel looking punk

[Skidmore]

7. Now would be a great time to

Tweet or FB share this article. This guy should be exposed and forced out. Bannon was.

[maxsolomon]

9. But it's different because Miller is White

and he just wants to stop Browns from immigrating.

Sure, others wanted to stop Jews from immigrating, but that was then. We're scared of Browns now.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Arkansas Granny

[Achilleaze]

12. Gross hypocrisy is the republican WAY

That and lies.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Fleeing Belarus in 1903? There must have been a mass exodus around that time.

Anyway, good story, with one particularly bad ending.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. It must be mortifying for them to have a Nazi in the family.

[Generic Other]

15. I would be mortified

if my uncle felt impelled to write such a thing about me. The shame would and should be enormous. Bet Miller's tiki torch Nazi friends were particularly impressed.