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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS
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SENATE RESOLUTION 498--CONDEMNING STEPHEN MILLER FOR TRAFFICKING IN
BIGOTRY, HATRED, AND DIVISIVE POLITICAL RHETORIC AND FOR PROMOTING
POLICIES THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE PLACED IN
HIM AS A SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT, AND EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF
THE SENATE THAT STEPHEN MILLER SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RESIGN FROM OFFICE
Ms. HARRIS (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Booker, Mr.
Blumenthal, and Ms. Klobuchar) submitted the following resolution;
which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs:
S. Res. 498
Whereas Public Law 115-58, a joint resolution signed into
law on September 14, 2017--
(1) rejects white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku
Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups; and
(2) states that in August 2017, white nationalists, white
supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis gathered and
demonstrated in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting racist,
anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans and causing
violence, from which the Charlottesville community is still
healing;
Whereas Stephen Miller is a Senior Advisor to President
Trump and has long cultivated relationships and
correspondence with individuals who adhere to white
nationalist ideology;
Whereas recently published emails of Stephen Miller
primarily address the subjects of race and immigration,
exclusively focus on offenses committed by nonwhite
individuals, and promote policies to severely limit or end
immigration to the United States by nonwhite individuals;
Whereas, in such emails, Stephen Miller--
(1) directly and repeatedly suggests story ideas for the
website Breitbart, encouraging Breitbart to incorporate white
supremacist, racist, and eugenics ideologies in its news
coverage;
(2) adheres to white supremacist ideologies in his
opposition to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(commonly known as ``DACA''), a policy that protects from
deportation young people, many of whom know no other home
than the United States, and permits such individuals to make
valuable contributions to their communities and the Unites
States; and
(3) repeatedly recommends that Breitbart publish favorable
articles relating to President Calvin Coolidge and the
Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter 190), a law
based on eugenics ideology that established a national origin
quota system to restrict immigration from areas other than
Northern and Western Europe;
Whereas a former Breitbart editor has acknowledged that
Stephen Miller's suggestions have been used by Breitbart to
``spin a narrative where immigrants of color were not only
dangerous, violent individuals but also posed an existential
threat to America'';
Whereas eugenics encompasses the racist belief that the
human population can be improved by promoting groups
considered genetically superior and eliminating or excluding
groups considered genetically inferior, a belief that was
strongly embraced by Adolf Hitler;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter
190) prohibited all immigration from Asia, severely
restricted immigration from Africa, and used outdated census
data to exclude many other individuals whom the proponents of
the law considered inferior or undesirable, including
Southern and Eastern Europeans;
Whereas the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153, chapter
190) was strongly supported by eugenicists and reflected the
pervasiveness of anti-immigrant and nativist sentiment in the
early twentieth century;
Whereas President Coolidge wrote, ``Our country must cease
to be regarded as a dumping ground [for new immigrants] . . .
. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will
not mix or blend'';
Whereas, in his manifesto entitled ``Mein Kampf'', Adolf
Hitler described the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat. 153,
chapter 190) as a model for Nazi Germany to make his eugenics
ideology a reality;
Whereas the national origin quotas and the eugenics
ideology embodied in the Immigration Act of 1924 (43 Stat.
153, chapter 190) governed United States immigration policy
until the passage of the Act entitled ``An Act to amend the
Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes'',
approved October 3, 1965 (commonly known as the ``Immigration
Act of 1965'') (79 Stat. 911), which replaced the national
origin quota system with a preference system based on family
ties and professional and skilled employment opportunities;
Whereas Stephen Miller is widely understood to direct
immigration policy for the Trump Administration, including by
supporting legislative and administrative proposals that
would severely reduce immigration to the United States and
disproportionately reduce immigration from Africa, Asia, and
Latin America; and
Whereas Stephen Miller's leadership position brings
discredit upon the White House: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That--
(1) the Senate condemns Stephen Miller for--
(A) trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divisive political
rhetoric; and
(B) promoting policies that are inconsistent with the trust
and confidence placed in him as a Senior Advisor to the
President; and
(2) it is the sense of the Senate that Stephen Miller,
Senior Advisor to the President,
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should immediately resign from office, and if he does not
resign, the President should remove him from office.
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