The Dark Racism Driving our Deportation Policies and Steven Miller

Are you a racist? I hope not. I loved my father, but he was a racist and I hated that. I hated his actions and words when it came to race. Generally, he was a good father, but then he wasn’t because he tried to teach his daughters lessons that no child should learn. And I didn’t learn them but once I complied with them and have regretted it ever since. He took me and my future husband out to eat. When I picked out a table next to a black family; he told me to move and I did.

 Now our nation is being troubled by a racist, Steven Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor. The man who wants ICE to start deporting at least 3000 immigrants a day. So what proof is there that Miller is a racist? 

 Over the years that I have worked in ministry to new religions and cultic groups as well writing a great deal on racism and antisemitism I have used some material written by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They have also used some of my material on antisemitism. While we don’t agree on the definition of marriage they do a fantastic job on research about racism and antisemitism. Their material on Steven Miller is excellent. 

I will put a link here that shows why he can be called a racist, but I also intend to quote from their material. In their article, one of several, they speak of his early bent toward racism, but it is his e-mails sent to Breitbart’s editor I want to highlight. This went from 2015 to 2016. I will quote: 

“The emails show evidence of Miller’s indulgence and sharing of the racist source material he relied upon to define the ethos of his immigration policies. Throughout the emails, Miller promotes literature, conspiracy theories, and policies supported by white nationalist and anti-immigrant hate groups. In a Sept. 6, 2015, email to Breitbart’s McHugh, Miller suggested that they write about Jean Raspail’s, “The Camp of the Saints,” a racist French novel popular among white nationalist and neo-Nazis. 

The novel is popular within extremist circles because of its dramatized depiction of “white genocide,” also referred to as the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. According to this theory, white people of European descent are being systematically displaced in the Western world.” When Raspail died in June 2020, VDARE author Steve Sailer, who Miller linked to in his emails to McHugh, publicly mourned his loss.”

 I am familiar with the book, The Camp of the Saints, it is often referred to by racists. When I read that this was in Miller’s e-mails I knew for certain that he is a racist and his deportation polices which he uses to advice President Trump are couched in his racism. SPLC continues with their article: 

“The novel utilizes an apocalyptic plot in which Indian refugees invade France, and their failure to assimilate or adopt French cultural norms ultimately leads to the domination of the white population. The main antagonist is referred to as the “turd eater.” In one section of the novel, a white woman is raped to death by a group of brown-skinned refugees. Additionally, another part of the novel depicts the killing of a pro-refugee leftist by a nationalist character because of the leftist’s support of race mixing.

 Miller recommended that Breitbart write about the novel in response to Pope Francis’ expressions of sympathy for refugees. Miller wrote, “you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints.” 

 This is a mixture of charismatic interest in end-times tales and, not mentioned in the quote, interest in militias and the hanging of enemies. This corresponds to many in the religious MAGA movement who are prophesying what they call the Haman affect when enemies will be hung. This is such ugly stuff. What is certain is Miller is not only interested in removing immigrants from the United States, he is interested in removing brown people from the United States.  

A long time ago Congress could have fixed laws that would have protected the “dreamers,” those brought to the United States as children who have lived here for many years, gone to school here, worked and paid taxes, raised families and contributed to their communities. They could have and still can continue giving temporary visas, extending them, to those who are fleeing persecution and severe poverty such as the Afghans, Haitians, and Venezuelans.

 I will quote from my very early article on racism”

 “Jesus Christ is God’s answer to racism. Paul admonishes the Galatians that they are to make no distinctions among those belonging to Christ; they are to be as one: “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:27-28). In the Book of Revelation, where Christ is pictured as both “the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah” and “a Lamb standing, as if slain,” the 24 Elders sing to His glory: “For Thou wast slain, and didst purchase for God with Thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. And thou hast made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth” (Rev. 5:9-10). 

The church, those redeemed not by race but by the blood of Christ the Lamb, understand Christ as both lion and lamb, both sacrifice and King. Wilhelm Niemoller, one of the members of the Confessing Church in Germany during the time of Hitler, wrote of what it meant to confess Christ as the only Lord under that regime: “One of my friends concluded a sermon of his in 1934 or 1935 by saying: ‘O Lord, Thou alone art our hope, apart from Thee, I know none!’ He was arrested, put on trial, and later released. The enemies that listened to him had noticed that the Third Reich was put in a difficult position wherever the ‘One Word of God’ made its appearance.” 

It is a truthful statement to say Miller is a racist his policies are tearing Americans apart. And hopefully it is a truthful statement to say I will never comply with racism again. …

 

Immigrants Becoming Citizens versus Temporary Workers: The Community of Wholeness

My lazy day of eating too much and watching videos on YouTube turned into a worrisome amount of information about at least some in Homeland Security and ICE, and an American agricultural program referred to as H-2A visas. This left me with deep concerns about what is occurring in my country, greater concerns than I’ve had about just ICE and Immigrants. 

I first watched an ICE raid on a market, Glenn Valley Foods, in Omaha Nebraska. Although several other news stations did a report, reporter Ali Bradley for News Nation, was given exclusive rights to report and film the whole event. Toward the end of the report Bradley interviewed the owner of Glenn Valley. The owner, Gary Rohwer insisted that he had verified all of his workers as legal. He stated that the workers were like family, and he just could not believe that they were undocumented. 

 However, Rohwer stated “Well I understand there’s a program we can work with Homeland Security and we can get visas from them along with a list of employees that we can interview and the ones that we want we give them a visa and its squeaky clean. And Homeland signs off on it.” I found this statement strange—how could Homeland Security give out visas in that manner. 

Later in the day I watched another video. People Breaking Immigration Law are not who you Think, which I did not realize was going to explain a lot about the first video. It was about the H-2A program and how it was affecting both local farm workers and those immigrants who were given visas to work in the United States. The video is produced by More Perfect Union, and it explains how the H-2A program is being used by some corporations to not hire local workers, (against the law) and the misuse of temporary migrant workers. There is suspicion that it is also being used to do away with any migrants seeking citizenship. 

Some of the complaints of local workers is that the agricultural corporations fire them and wait to hire temporary migrant workers. The temporary workers have many complaints. Poor crowded housing, long work hours without overtime, insistence that they pay for their travel expenses which is also, under the program, against the law. Probably the biggest problem is they cannot ask to stay in the United States-they will.

 If this program is being used to place Mexico and other countries, with brown skinned peoples outside of American citizenship, then it well become racist for several reasons. The owner of Glenn Valley Food kept saying that his workers were family and mentioned that they had families there. In other words, they were part of the community—This is the better idea for our country. To make farm workers less than members of our community and in some ways almost slaves is racists.

 Antonio de Lorea-Burst, communications director with the United Farm Workers, states in the video, “Theres a very nightmarish vision of the agricultural economy that effectively sees the entire labor force being composed of guest workers who are permanently excluded from citizenship who are denied basic labor rights and I think they see this moment as an opportunity to get closer to that.” 

 The President has even encouraged the farm workers to go home and then apply for a workers visa.

 Today a friend on Facebook reposted a comment by Trump: 

“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!" 

I think this is simply another setup to remove immigrants and replace them with temporary workers who will have no rights and will not be a part of our communities. They will be outsiders who we will use to make sure we have plentiful food. But they will not contribute to our schools, our church communities, our gatherings as citizens. We will be less than we should be and if we are Christians we will sinfully contribute to the dehumanization of others.