Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle. By DAVID S. GLOSSER August 13, 2018
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He set foot on Ellis Island on January 7, 1903, with $8 to his name. Though fluent in Polish, Russian and Yiddish, he understood no English. An elder son, Nathan, soon followed. By street corner peddling and sweatshop toil, Wolf-Leib and Nathan sent enough money home to pay off debts and buy the immediate family's passage to America in 1906. That group included young Sam Glosser, who with his family settled in the western Pennsylvania city of Johnstown, a booming coal and steel town that was a magnet for other hardworking immigrants. The Glosser family quickly progressed from selling goods from a horse and wagon to owning a haberdashery in Johnstown run by Nathan and Wolf-Leib to a chain of supermarkets and discount department stores run by my grandfather, Sam, and the next generation of Glossers, including my dad, Izzy. It was big enough to be listed on the AMEX stock exchange and employed thousands of people over time. In the span of some 80 years and five decades, this family emerged from poverty in a hostile country to become a prosperous, educated clan of merchants, scholars, professionals, and, most important, American citizens.
What does this classically American tale have to do with Stephen Miller? Well, Izzy Glosser is his maternal grandfather, and Stephen's mother, Miriam, is my sister.
I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family's life in this country.
I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses" the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants " been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom. The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the "America first" nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees. Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family likely would have been murdered by the Nazis along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol. I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.
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"Link up, buttercup. Or STFU already.
#108 | Posted by rstybeach11"
My statements are always backed by actual stats.
papers.ssrn.com
"Using newly released detailed data on all prisoners who entered the Arizona state prison from January 1985 through June 2017, we are able to separate non-U.S. citizens by whether they are illegal or legal residents. Unlike other studies, these data do not rely on self-reporting of criminal backgrounds. Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5% longer sentences, more likely to be classified as dangerous, and 45% more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens."
"- I am still waiting for the link to back up your claim that the .1% got over 50% of Trump's tax cut."
I gave it to you. And I said I won't be doing your homework.
uscode.house.gov
Meanwhile, you posted an article claiming 45% went to the wealthiest .1% Americans. AMERICANS. The article SPECIFICALLY OMITTED foreign investors.
The foreign investors have almost a universal effect of RAISING that number, since the wealthiest tend to invest more in the US, so the MACRO DIAL turns that way. And since foreign investors got MORE of the Trump tax cuts (over 15%) than did American workers (less than 15%), it would take a math moron not to see the number is over 50%, easily. And once you add in the cost of interest, going largely (natch) to the wealthiest...
...well, you either understand macro math, or you don't. Asserting over half the Trump Tax Code changes DIDN'T go to the world's wealthiest .1% is just admitting you don't understand the US tax code.
