Kamala Harris and 27 U.S Senators demands the removal of Stephen Miller

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Kamala Harris and a group of 27 U.S Senators have demanded the immediate removal of Stephen Miller from his role as a White House senior adviser to Donald Trump. The move amid allegations he holds white supremacist views. The California Democrat recently quit her bid for the White House in 2020. She wrote to the Trump administration in a letter on Monday, she said, “We write to demand the immediate removal of Stephen Miller as your advisor”. Miller is serving as one of the president’s top advisers on immigration. He came under fire after a trove of his leaked emails was reported on by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch.

The emails from 2015 to 2016 have shown Miller (who then served as an aide to former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions) was promoting xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and white nationalist viewpoints to a reporter for the right-wing website Breitbart. It was allegedly an attempt to get her to write about those sentiments. She wrote in her letter, “Simply put, Miller is unfit to serve in any capacity at the White House, let alone as a senior policy adviser”. Her statement was first reported by HuffPost. Miller has played a crucial role in shaping many of the administration’s most controversial hard-line immigration policies. He also helped in building a wall across the entirety of the U.S-Mexico border.

She added, “Demonstrable white national ideology has been directly translated into the White House agenda. The Muslim ban targeted individuals of color and caused chaos at U.S. airports around the country, wreaking havoc on the lives of countless individuals and families”. She also wrote, “The family separation policy tore children from their families, resulting in widely reported mistreatment and human rights abuses of immigrants in detention facilities nationwide. The rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has thrown the lives of hundreds of thousands of DREAMers into chaos and instability”. The recent move amid after at least 100 House Democrats signed onto a letter a week after the emails were released demanding Miller’s removal from the White House.