The Mind of Stephen Miller with Jean Guerrero
Hello my Spilling Chai listeners! How is everyone doing? Welcome to Episode 5 of Season 2 of the show, coming to you from Washington, DC. The word βimmigrationβ brings up so many different kinds of emotions and images for people. In Trumpβs America, for me the word brings to mind families being tear-gassed and separated at the border; children in cages sleeping under aluminum blankets. Under Donald Trump, even legal immigration and seeking asylum is treated as criminal.
Well, our guest today knows and understands this issue perhaps better than anyone because of all the time she spent researching and studying Stephen Miller– Senior Policy Advisor for the Trump admin, and the man in charge of formulating immigration policy.
Jean Guerrero is an award-winning investigative journalist and author ofΒ Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda.Β Her first book,Β Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir,Β won a PEN Literary Award and was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2019. Her writing is featured inΒ Vanity Fair, Politico, The Nation, Wired,Β theΒ New York Times,Β TheΒ Washington Post, Best American Essays 2019Β by Rebecca Solnit and more. She is an Emmy-winning border reporter, contributing to NPR, the PBS NewsHour and more. Months before Trumpβs family separations captured national attention, her reporting on the practice was cited by members of Congress. She started her career at the Wall Street JournalΒ and Dow Jones Newswires as a foreign correspondent in Mexico and Central America, trekking through mountains with coffee smugglers, opium poppy producers and more. She was 2019 βJournalist of the Yearβ (Society for Professional Journalists, San Diego) and one of the California Chicano News Media Associationβs most influential Latina journalists in the region.
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