“Black Americans’ fight for true reparations will not be co-opted and misappropriated for racist anti-immigrant fear-mongering operations,” said Dreisen Heath, a reparations researcher.
White House aide Stephen Miller argued that Americans who have been harmed by undocumented immigrants and immigration policies enacted by the Democratic Party should receive “reparations.”
Miller, who serves as President Donald Trump‘s deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight” on Friday night, where he discussed the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which include the mass deportation of undocumented people living in the United States.
During the news segment, Miller said Americans should receive “reparations” for the “damages” as a result of crimes committed by non-citizens, including violence and drug trafficking, and the impacts on communities across the country.
“We had an entire generation of Americans, multiple generations, in fact, have been robbed of educational opportunities. Entire cities. Look at Los Angeles…once a paradise of safety, security and prosperity, entire neighborhoods occupied and controlled by foreign gangs,” said Miller, who was the architect of President Trump’s controversial family separation and travel ban policies at the U.S. border during his first term.
“Where do all the residents who have been displaced, who have been forced out of Los Angeles…where do they go to get their reparations?”