[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 498 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 13, 2020

    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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   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.

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 non-White individuals, and promote policies to severely 
        limit or end immigration to the United States by non-White 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 United 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, should immediately resign from 
        office, and if he does not resign, the President should remove 
        him from office.
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