Immigration czar Stephen Miller's uncle raises thousands for refugee aid group overnight

Immigration czar Stephen Miller's uncle raises thousands for refugee aid group overnight Stephen Miller The uncle of White House a...

Immigration czar Stephen Miller's uncle raises thousands for refugee aid group overnight

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The uncle of White House adviser and immigration hawk Stephen Miller raised thousands of dollars for a refugee aid group in "celebration" of his nephew's wedding.

In a Facebook post protesting the Trump administration's "America First" immigration policies, David Glosser, Miller's maternal uncle, shared a link for donations to HIAS, a Jewish American refugee agency. He wrote that he would be contributing to the organization which "serves to protect refugees and helped to rescue my family from Czarist oppression in the Russian Empire in 1906.

"Had our refugee forebears not been helped to emigrate to the USA, they and their children would have been murdered by the racial madness of Nazism; as were the 74 of our relatives who were shut out of America by the race/religion based immigration exclusion act of 1925 enacted by the 'America First' populists of the day," he wrote. "Protect the refugee and welcome the stranger ... they built America.”

Less than 18-hours later, Glosser had raised more than $4,000 for HIAS.

His post also shared a link to a parody website, matchmadeinhate.com, created by comedian Samantha Bee, which quotes a first-person story that he wrote two years ago for Politico Magazine condemning his nephew. Under a section marked, "A Word From Our Families," a pull quote attributed to "Uncle David Glosser" reads:

“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.”

Glosser, a retired neuropsychologist, called on donors to the Facebook fundraising campaign that he shared Tuesday to "plug" the hole "in the great wall of civilization that holds back the tide of cruelty that threatens our world," in reference to the administration's immigration policies. He said to vote for Democratic political candidates "so that we can at long last have a rational and compassionate route forward on this and so many other issues."

It was the duty of the families of Auschwitz survivors, Glosser said in a comment, "to remember them and to learn from the past so that their suffering not be in vain."

Miller, 34, who is Jewish, is credited as a driving force behind President Trump's hard-line stance on immigration. He wed Katie Waldman, 28, Trump special assistant and press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Sunday in a ceremony where the president gave remarks. Waldman, who is also Jewish, is a former spokeswoman for then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

"[Miller] is the only one who could have a damn wedding in the middle of Presidents Day weekend. I’m sure it didn’t affect anybody here," Trump joked in his speech.

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