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Trump advisor Stephen Miller faces increasing pressure to resign after reports that he shared white nationalist links with a Breitbart editor

White House advisor Stephen Miller is facing increasing pressure to resign after new leaked emails showed him exchanging links to white nationalist websites with a Breitbart editor.

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  • The House Progressive Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus all issued a joint statement on Thursday also urging Miller to resign.
  • "It's clearer than ever that Stephen Miller is a far-right white nationalist with a racist and xenophobic worldview. His beliefs are appalling, indefensible, and completely at odds with public service," the statement read.
  • A trove of emailsleaked to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch project showed Miller exchanging white nationalist emails and ideas with former Breitbart editor and reporter Katie McHugh.
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Senior White House advisor Stephen Miller is facing increasing pressure to resign from the White House after a bombshell report of leaked emails showed him exchanging links to white nationalist websites with a Breitbart editor.

After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Miller as a "bonafide white nationalist" and called for his resignation, the leaders of the House Progressive Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus issued a joint statement on Thursday also urging Miller to resign.

"It's clearer than ever that Stephen Miller is a far-right white nationalist with a racist and xenophobic worldview. His beliefs are appalling, indefensible, and completely at odds with public service," the statement read, according to USA Today.

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A trove of emails leaked to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch project showed Miller exchanging white nationalist links and ideas with former Breitbart editor and reporter Katie McHugh.

The emails, more than 900 of which McHugh provided to the SPLC, date back to between 2015 and 2016, when Miller was a policy adviser for then-Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and discussed story ideas with her surrounding immigration and race.

The 32-year old official keeps a relatively low public profile, but is credited with being the lead architect behind several of the Trump administration's controversial immigration policies, as the joint statement pointed out.

These include the travel ban on several majority-Muslim nations, and the zero-tolerance border policy that resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents for weeks or even months at a time.

"As the chief architect of the Muslim Ban and cruel family separation policies, Stephen Miller has spent the last three years turning his bigotry into policy with President Trump's blessing," the statement charged.

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In September 2015, Miller sent McHugh links to stories from V-Dare, an anti-immigration website that pushes the "white replacement" theory, about how Hurricane Patricia could result in Mexican nationals seeking temporary protected status (TPS) in the US.

And in a July 2015 phone conversation, Miller encouraged McHugh to cite an article from another white nationalist publication, the American Renaissance, regarding DOJ crime statistics that separated Hispanics and whites, McHugh told HateWatch. (She was fired from Breitbart in 2017 and no longer considers herself part of the right-wing).

In another email from September 2015, Miller encouraged McHugh to make parallels between immigration and the explicitly racist 1970s novel "Camp of the Saints," which tells the story of a group of Indians who "eat feces" invade France, kill people, and rape women. The book has been widely cited by proponents of the white replacement theory to illustrate the dangers of immigration.

McHugh and Miller discussed the novel in the context of Breitbart writing a story about non-white students driving down average SAT scores. "On the education angle? Makes sense. Also, you see the Pope saying west must, in effect, get rid of borders. Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints," Miller said.

The White House, for its part, doesn't seem to be getting rid of Miller anytime soon.

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Press secretary Stephanie Grisham slammed the SPLC as "an utterly-discredited, long-debunked far-left smear organization that has recently been forced to its great humiliation to issue a major retraction for other wholly-fabricated accusations. They libel, slander, and defame conservatives for a living" in a statement to Axios.

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