Stephen Miller once again illustrates his utter lack of knowledge and inability to understand context. What else is new?
On December 26, 2025, Presidential advisor Stephen Miller shared an ignorant post on the social media platform X (forever known as Twitter).
“Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world,” he wrote, referring to a Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Christmas special.
You may recall that Miller was the architect of the “zero tolerance” policy used during the first Trump administration. That policy was used to separate immigrant families at the border during the first Trump administration. This was a policy in which parents were separated from their children as they crossed the border. As of late 2024, over 1300 children remain separated from their parents. That’s about 30% of all children who were separated from their parents. Most will never be reunited. This policy was rooted in racism, bigotry and hate.
Thanks to Miller and Trump, the actions of our government were rightfully compared to those of the Nazi regime.
Children of Immigrants
What Miller ignores, and fails to understand, is that both Sinatra and Martin were first generation Americans. They were children of Italian immigrants. Growing up, both singers faced much of the same racism and bigotry shown by Miller to today’s immigrant communities.
Sinatra and Martin were known for their support and advocacy of entertainers of color, especially in Las Vegas where they joined with Sammy Davis Junior to form “The Rat Pack.” They supported artists like Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and others. They won concessions from casino owners, so that black performers could stay in the very hotels in which they were performing.
Their advocacy didn’t end there. Their support of the civil rights movement and causes are well documented.
Do the right thing.
Sinatra and Martin understood what racism and bigotry looks like first hand and up close. They chose to oppose it.
We, as Americans, owe it to our own immigrant forefathers to stand up to the hate and bigotry of people like Stephen Miller. We need to honor the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!