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LiberalArkie

(19,856 posts)
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:25 AM May 2025

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

DAVID S. GLOSSER August 13, 2018

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 sweatshop 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 hardworking 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.


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

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Politico: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle. (Original Post) LiberalArkie May 2025 OP
Not sure what caused his transformation into Baby Goebbels. surfered May 2025 #1
Wouldn't surprise me. Any picture of him just screams "wedgie"! n/t the nelm May 2025 #10
Maybe he just wanted to be white malaise May 2025 #12
I just read an article about Miller's high school years on Univision. Prof. Toru Tanaka May 2025 #14
Thanks surfered May 2025 #15
Didn't he go to school shanti May 2025 #25
I read somewhere that when he was in high school, he asked a latina girl to a dance, and she said no. Volaris May 2025 #17
i remember hearing / reading that too. only i thought he asked her for a date and she turned him down nt orleans May 2025 #21
I really believe that some people are just born Nazis. soldierant May 2025 #23
G.O.P. operative betrays his own roots BoRaGard May 2025 #2
The Daily show last night did an awesome biography of him and he really is a monster since he was a kid! kimbutgar May 2025 #3
Bad seed? ananda May 2025 #9
this person orleans May 2025 #22
He's Rick Scott? markodochartaigh May 2025 #29
lol wolfie001 May 2025 #30
Like rfk, jr., a complete embarrassment to his family. SheltieLover May 2025 #4
The sooner... liberalgunwilltravel May 2025 #5
I am a second generation Italian LittleGirl May 2025 #6
Same here mtngirl47 May 2025 #11
I'm sorry to hear that. LittleGirl May 2025 #16
Stephen Miller Video CitizenZero May 2025 #7
So, Stephen Miller is a Jew. So Ironic. SpankMe May 2025 #8
And he stands shoulder to shoulder with... Justice matters. May 2025 #13
Need a new word for irony. JanMichael May 2025 #19
I wonder if the DENVERPOPS May 2025 #24
Sadly not ironic, but true. elleng May 2025 #26
Someone has to be this century Max Naumann rpannier May 2025 #27
K&R UTUSN May 2025 #18
The "miller's" tale... Godot51 May 2025 #20
8 years ago I read the same thing about him and his family BigmanPigman May 2025 #28
This is what we're dealing with. Hopefully history will rise to the occasion LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #31

surfered

(13,708 posts)
1. Not sure what caused his transformation into Baby Goebbels.
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:28 AM
May 2025

Maybe he was bullied in school by some brown skinned person?

malaise

(296,780 posts)
12. Maybe he just wanted to be white
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:14 PM
May 2025

Last edited Thu May 1, 2025, 03:28 PM - Edit history (1)

He’s hardly the first such person

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,934 posts)
14. I just read an article about Miller's high school years on Univision.
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:26 PM
May 2025

Google up “stephen miller’s years in high school”. Miller apparently went through some radical changes during this period including shunning a Latino student with whom he had a close friendship.

Volaris

(11,732 posts)
17. I read somewhere that when he was in high school, he asked a latina girl to a dance, and she said no.
Thu May 1, 2025, 08:16 PM
May 2025

I can give you no confirmation that it's true (except that I did read it on the web somewhere), but if it is, it speaks volumes.

'Who hurt you, stephen?'

In this case, we know.

orleans

(37,016 posts)
21. i remember hearing / reading that too. only i thought he asked her for a date and she turned him down nt
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:08 AM
May 2025

soldierant

(9,360 posts)
23. I really believe that some people are just born Nazis.
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:11 AM
May 2025

Nothing to do with genetics - those I can think of off the top of my head are, f not disowned by their families, at least publicly contradicted by them. It's not just Miller. Theres RFK Kr, and Pail Gosar. And no doubt others.

kimbutgar

(27,331 posts)
3. The Daily show last night did an awesome biography of him and he really is a monster since he was a kid!
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:30 AM
May 2025

Born evil would be a perfect description of him. I think he is the reincarnation of an evil past person.

SheltieLover

(81,109 posts)
4. Like rfk, jr., a complete embarrassment to his family.
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:36 AM
May 2025

Is this a theme in tsf's admin?

I guess all the more powerful an embarrassment to the US on the workd stage to please pootin.

LittleGirl

(8,999 posts)
6. I am a second generation Italian
Thu May 1, 2025, 11:43 AM
May 2025

Last edited Thu May 1, 2025, 06:06 PM - Edit history (1)

and it's shocking how racist some of my relatives are. I shouted at one and said, your grandfather would be ashamed of you. My grandfather and your grandfather were like blood brothers/cousins from the same village. They came here and were spat on just like you're doing to any brown skinned person and it's sickening. Grow up.

LittleGirl

(8,999 posts)
16. I'm sorry to hear that.
Thu May 1, 2025, 06:05 PM
May 2025

One cousin visited Italy and considered it a shithole country. That was probably the last time I spoke to him. I don’t have people like that in my life.

 

CitizenZero

(920 posts)
7. Stephen Miller Video
Thu May 1, 2025, 12:06 PM
May 2025

This is a funny and informative video on Stephen Miller's past. Just about 32 minutes long but worth watching.

Justice matters.

(9,875 posts)
13. And he stands shoulder to shoulder with...
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:17 PM
May 2025

the fascists who parade chanting "Jews will not replace us" ...

Hitler's concentration camps redux.

Godot51

(795 posts)
20. The "miller's" tale...
Thu May 1, 2025, 11:59 PM
May 2025

He hates his roots.
He's ashamed of his heritage.
He thinks he is better than they were.
So he takes it out on today's immigrants

BigmanPigman

(55,297 posts)
28. 8 years ago I read the same thing about him and his family
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:13 AM
May 2025

Nothing has changed. Nothing ever changes, unless it changes for the worse.

His relative told the public the same info in 2017. What has changed? No, really, what has changed? Certainly nothing for the better. The only things that change in the US political system are when horrible things are made even more horrible by the greedy, sadistic, hate filled, testosterone poisoned US political machine. Even the corporate Dem donors are as evil as the GOP these days. They all bow to their god...King Midas and the power of gold.

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