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“That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments,”
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43 things Stephen Miller said, verbatim, from March 27, 2026 to August 15, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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Stephen Miller on National security & surveillance1
Stephen Miller on Government spending & shutdowns2
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“I think that most citizens would probably assume that there’s some verification process that takes place for the receipt of most federal benefits. The reality is that there is not,”
Breitbart News JD Vance Hosts First Anti-Fraud Task Force Roundtable with Top Cabinet Secretaries ›
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“This is particularly true in blue states, willfully true in blue states in which all of these programs are operating entirely on the honor system. No verification takes place before individuals are enrolled in or receive these benefits,”
Breitbart News JD Vance Hosts First Anti-Fraud Task Force Roundtable with Top Cabinet Secretaries ›
Stephen Miller on Immigration & the border16
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“alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments”
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“And what that means is that no one in the world is any more allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose.”
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“And so, with taking this action, it ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits,”
on Trump's executive orders ending birth tourism and limiting birthright citizenship
Breitbart News Trump Signs Orders That End Birth Tourism, Limit Birthright Citizenship ›
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“I would put this in the top three in terms of importance because it ends what has been one of the gravest and most egregious abuses of the American system, and it keeps American citizenship sacred,”
on Trump's orders restricting birthright citizenship, called among his most important
Breitbart News Trump Signs Orders That End Birth Tourism, Limit Birthright Citizenship ›
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“It gives them access under this broken system to welfare benefits, ultimately to the voting booth, and all the other rights and privileges that belong solely to Americans. So that practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned,”
on Trump's order banning birth tourism and limiting birthright citizenship
Breitbart News Trump Signs Orders That End Birth Tourism, Limit Birthright Citizenship ›
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“So if you’re telling a consular officer you’re here as a tourist but your true purpose and intent is to go to a baby mill, give birth and try and mint an American citizen while you’re here, then you’re committing fraud against the American government,”
on treating birth tourism as visa fraud under Trump's new order
Politico Trump rolls out orders intended to narrow birthright citizenship and target 'birth tourism' ›
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“It’d be crazy for us to say that Haitians couldn’t live in Haiti. It’s their country.”
on ICE stripping legal status from Haitian workers and tracking them with GPS monitors
World Socialist Web Site ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status ›
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“We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the Treasury went to individuals who were properly lawfully correctly eligible to receive them,”
on limiting federal payments to lawfully eligible recipients amid healthcare fraud findings
The Intercept Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows ›
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“You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies,”
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“No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
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“President Trump signed an executive order a few weeks ago saying that we are not going to allow illegal aliens to use banking services in this country,”
Fox News Stephen Miller says Trump administration is pursuing policy to debank illegal immigrants ›
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“You have to now think very carefully about who you let into your country, even on a temporary basis,”
on tightening vetting of who is allowed into the country
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“I don’t know what they’re going to do, but here’s what I can say: If this country one way or another doesn’t end birthright citizenship, this country doesn’t have a future. Citizenship has to be sacred and precious.”
on why ending birthright citizenship is necessary for the country's future
MSNBC Trump’s birthright citizenship loss is good, but the fight is far from over ›
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“The idea that you could have a country where you just set foot on U.S. soil, and any child you have can be an American citizen, collect our welfare, sit on our juries, sit in judgment of our fellow men and women, it’s outrageous,”
on criticism that birthright citizenship extends to any child born on US soil
MSNBC Trump’s birthright citizenship loss is good, but the fight is far from over ›
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“American citizenship is not the birthright of the world. It belongs only and solely to Americans. No provision of the Constitution can be read to require our national self-obliteration.”
on Trump's push for Congress to ban birthright citizenship after his Supreme Court loss
NBC News Politics After his Supreme Court loss, Trump calls on Congress to pass a law banning birthright citizenship ›
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“The gravest and most preposterous of all constitutional abominations,”
on the Trump administration's legal challenge to birthright citizenship
Associated Press FACT FOCUS: A look at the Trump administration’s challenge to birthright citizenship ›
Stephen Miller on Healthcare & public health2
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“We get off of this ridiculous path of having our children get seventy to ninety shots,”
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“That is wantonly excessive. Remember, every one of these shots produces a profound immunological response.”
on criticizing the number of vaccine doses given to children
Stephen Miller on Abortion & reproductive rights1
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“If one woman wants to preserve her right to have children, which means more than having none—we should celebrate that. ... Everyone's journey to motherhood is different, just as each of us mothers differently. I can't wait to see how motherhood changes AOC.”
on AOC sharing her egg-freezing journey
CBS News AOC shares her egg-freezing journey. Here's what to know about the process. ›
Stephen Miller on Campaigns & elections3
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“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy,”
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“The Marxists have nominated some of the most radical candidates to ever run for office, and they’re running for Congress. The insurgent left is on the rise.”
on Mamdani-backed candidates winning NYC congressional primaries
World Socialist Web Site Mamdani-backed candidates win NYC congressional primaries: The political issues ›
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“violent ideology that wants to tear America down and destroy everything that we know and love, from top to bottom.”
World Socialist Web Site Mamdani-backed candidates win NYC congressional primaries: The political issues ›
Stephen Miller on Democracy & voting rights1
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“I remember there was this lawyer who was in the administration who said the election was fair and there’s no fraud. Who was he?”
on a new book detailing Trump's private comments to aides
CNN New book reveals how Trump compared himself to Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun ›
Stephen Miller on Courts & the law2
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“One of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court,”
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“This is one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court.”
on Trump's reaction to the Supreme Court's rulings against him
PBS NewsHour - Politics Trump's response to the landmark Supreme Court rulings and what's next ›
Stephen Miller on Extremism & political violence6
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“We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
on pursuing perceived political enemies amid a resurgence of McCarthyism
The Guardian McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine ›
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“One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its entirely spurious and dishonest appeal to civil rights.”
World Socialist Web Site German political satire show <em>Die Anstalt</em> bows to censorship in its 100th edition ›
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“Nothing that we do works if the threat of violence and terror goes on unchecked. Our political systems don’t work. Our judicial systems don’t work. Our legal systems don’t work. Our jury trials don’t work”
on institutions failing to stop left-wing violence
Truthout Miller Labels Leftists a “Cancer” That World Must “Root Out” in Fascistic Speech ›
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“If your civilization is your home, you must defend it with the same passion and force as if an enemy intruder is inside your own house where your family lives”
on forceful defense against left-wing existential threat
NPR Rubio convenes countries on left-wing political violence ›
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“At the same time, we have to understand there’s a real threat that those who are not themselves terrorists but who support left-wing violence will create the conditions that allow that violence to go on.”
on warning that supporters of left-wing violence enable it to continue
Truthout Miller Labels Leftists a “Cancer” That World Must “Root Out” in Fascistic Speech ›
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“Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and survival of our republican form of government,”
Truthout Miller Labels Leftists a “Cancer” That World Must “Root Out” in Fascistic Speech ›
Stephen Miller on Gender & LGBTQ2
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“If she inspires other women to have babies, we should celebrate that … But too many women buy into the feminist lie and spend their childbearing years climbing the career ladder,”
on Maga criticism of AOC's decision to freeze her eggs
The Guardian ‘Bold and ethical’: doctors on AOC’s egg-freezing journey - and Maga’s criticisms of it ›
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“Good for her for wanting to be a mother and preserving the ability to do so. If she inspires other women to want to become mothers, awesome we need more babies,”
on praising AOC's egg freezing amid falling US birth rates
Washington Examiner Katie Miller praises AOC’s egg freezing: ‘We need more babies’ ›
Stephen Miller on Other topics7
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“It was close, a very, very unfortunate decision, so we’re making adjustments because it’s very unfair for a different reason.”
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“If you wait until the point where the worst outcome is so obvious that no one can deny it, you’ve already lost the battle.”
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“It is the burden and the duty of good people of all walks of life to understand that you will always be accused of raising the alarm too loudly,”
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“That is a historical legacy that will always belong to him.”
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“Lindsey was of a mold that I don’t think we’re going to see for a very long time,”
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“Lindsey was the most effective, consistent advocate for the president’s agenda in the Senate,”
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“In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time. He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last.”
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