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Last week, Richard Spencer 鈥� a figurehead for the white nationalist 鈥渁lt-right鈥� 鈥� praised Trump鈥檚 senior policy advisor Stephen Miller for pushing the president further to the right on immigration.

Speaking on his 鈥淎lt-Right鈥� podcast on January 24, Spencer stated, 鈥淪tephen Miller is singularly responsible for the fact that A: DACA isn鈥檛 just some heartwarming bill that he signs in the Rose Garden and gets nothing for, that its actually part of a deal. And B: that we鈥檙e even talking about chain migration.鈥� Spencer later went on to say, that the topic of family reunification, decried by nativist groups as 鈥渃hain migration,鈥� 鈥渉as never been in mainstream discourse in my memory and it has certainly never been part of a policy deal, and Stephen Miller deserves credit for that.鈥�

Miller and Spencer have a history. Both attended Duke University in the mid 2000s while Miller was an undergrad and Spencer was pursuing a PhD. In a December 2016 interview with Mother Jones, Spencer that he wanted to keep his relationship with Miller quiet. 聽鈥淚 knew [Miller] very well when I was at Duke. But I am kind of glad no one鈥檚 talked about this, because I don鈥檛 want to harm Trump.鈥� In another with Vanity Fair six months later, Spencer was more open, claiming that he mentored Miller, calling him 鈥渂allsy,鈥� before adding 鈥淏ut I do think that Stephen probably would鈥檝e ended up exactly more or less where he is today whether he had met me or not.鈥�

In their time together at Duke, Miller helped Spencer organize an immigration debate on campus featuring white nationalist Peter Brimelow, founder of VDARE.com, a hub for white nationalists and antisemites who decry non-white immigration to the United States.

Spencer also praised VDARE and other anti-immigrant groups on the January 24 podcast for their dedication to attacking 鈥渃hain migration.鈥� Spencer noted that so-called chain migration, 鈥渉as been talked about by the kosher immigration reform movement for many years to their credit. VDARE, but beyond VDARE, Numbers and you know Carrying Capacity, FAIR, all that kind of stuff. To their credit.鈥� The 鈥渘umbers鈥� group Spencer is referring to is NumbersUSA, the mobilizing arm of the anti-immigrant movement and FAIR is the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an 澳彩开奖-designated anti-immigrant hate group.

As scholar Steven Gardiner notes in his 2005 paper, 鈥�,鈥� 鈥淸t]here are also organizations, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) for example, that in their push for mainstream acceptance vehemently denying racist motivations, even while playing to radicalized fears and allying themselves with doctrine white nationalists.鈥� In other words, anti-immigrant animus is the key issue that links white nationalists like Spencer to the organized anti-immigrant movement.

While Miller has denounced Spencer, he has praise on the anti-immigrant hate group Center for Immigration Studies, a group he frequently cites including the that 72 terrorists came from countries covered under the Muslim ban. 聽

Miller between these nativist hate groups and the White House, and his efforts to push the White House鈥檚 immigration stance to a more nativist one has resulted in ample reverence from white nationalists and anti-immigrant groups alike.聽