A 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.

III 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. 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 Govern- mental Affairs 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 express- ing 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 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:30 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR498.IS SR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •SRES 498 IS and demonstrated in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans and causing violence, from which the Charlottesville commu- nity is still healing; Whereas Stephen Miller is a Senior Advisor to President Trump and has long cultivated relationships and cor- respondence with individuals who adhere to White nation- alist ideology; Whereas recently published emails of Stephen Miller pri- marily address the subjects of race and immigration, ex- clusively focus on offenses committed by non-White indi- viduals, and promote policies to severely limit or end im- migration 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 incor- porate 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 in- dividuals to make valuable contributions to their commu- nities 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; VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:30 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR498.IS SR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •SRES 498 IS 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 exis- tential 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 exclud- ing 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 re- stricted immigration from Africa, and used outdated cen- sus data to exclude many other individuals whom the pro- ponents of the law considered inferior or undesirable, in- cluding 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 senti- ment in the early twentieth century; Whereas President Coolidge wrote, ‘‘Our country must cease to be regarded as a dumping ground [for new immi- grants] . . . . Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend’’; Whereas, in his manifesto entitled ‘‘Mein Kampf’’, Adolf Hit- ler 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 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:30 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR498.IS SR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •SRES 498 IS until the passage of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other pur- poses’’, approved October 3, 1965 (commonly known as the ‘‘Immigration Act of 1965’’) (79 Stat. 911), which replaced the national origin quota system with a pref- erence system based on family ties and professional and skilled employment opportunities; Whereas Stephen Miller is widely understood to direct immi- gration 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 (1) the Senate condemns Stephen Miller for— 2 (A) trafficking in bigotry, hatred, and divi- 3 sive political rhetoric; and 4 (B) promoting policies that are incon- 5 sistent with the trust and confidence placed in 6 him as a Senior Advisor to the President; and 7 (2) it is the sense of the Senate that Stephen 8 Miller, Senior Advisor to the President, should im- 9 mediately resign from office, and if he does not re- 10 sign, the President should remove him from office. 11 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:30 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\SR498.IS SR498 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS