Rep. Ilhan Omar Says Stephen Miller's Rhetoric Echoes Language Used By Nazis

The Somali American lawmaker's comment comes after the noted racist and Homeland Security adviser essentially said migrants are ruining the U.S.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that the dehumanizing language used against immigrants by noted racist and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller is similar to how Nazis spoke of Jewish people.

Miller, who was the architect behind the Trump administration’s immigration policies, used such language last month in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging Americans to refrain from demonizing all Afghan refugees, after one allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.

“This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies,” Miller said on X. “No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

That post wasn’t the first time Miller made such comments dehumanizing nonwhite immigrants. The adviser regularly echoes the “great replacement theory,” a conspiracy promoting the racist idea that nonwhite immigrants are “invading” the country to “replace” the country’s white population.

“When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” Omar, a Somali American lawmaker who came to the U.S. as a refugee, told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”