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LiberalArkie

(18,044 posts)
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:25 AM Yesterday

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

surfered

(6,455 posts)
1. Not sure what caused his transformation into Baby Goebbels.
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:28 AM
Yesterday

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

malaise

(283,545 posts)
12. Maybe he just wanted to be white
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:14 PM
Yesterday

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

He’s hardly the first such person

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,583 posts)
14. I just read an article about Miller's high school years on Univision.
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:26 PM
Yesterday

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

(10,839 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
Yesterday

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

(35,956 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
21 hrs ago

soldierant

(8,444 posts)
23. I really believe that some people are just born Nazis.
Fri May 2, 2025, 12:11 AM
21 hrs ago

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

(24,971 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
Yesterday

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

SheltieLover

(67,174 posts)
4. Like rfk, jr., a complete embarrassment to his family.
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:36 AM
Yesterday

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

(8,670 posts)
6. I am a second generation Italian
Thu May 1, 2025, 11:43 AM
Yesterday

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

(8,670 posts)
16. I'm sorry to hear that.
Thu May 1, 2025, 06:05 PM
Yesterday

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
Yesterday

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

Justice matters.

(8,329 posts)
13. And he stands shoulder to shoulder with...
Thu May 1, 2025, 01:17 PM
Yesterday

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

Hitler's concentration camps redux.

Godot51

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

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

(52,947 posts)
28. 8 years ago I read the same thing about him and his family
Fri May 2, 2025, 04:13 AM
17 hrs ago

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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