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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s own cousin has denounced and disowned him for masterminding the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies.
Alisa Kasmer, revealed on Facebook that she’s Miller’s cousin on his father’s side, and publicly announced that she wants nothing more to do with him.
Kasmer’s revelation came after she experienced ICE raids near her home in Camarillo, CA, that triggered severe panic attacks.
“Being public about it is something I’ve struggled with,” Kasmer wrote. “I live with real fear about what posting something this raw might bring. I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil. But I know that staying silent only deepens the ache. There’s so much more I could say, and maybe someday I will.”
Kasmer wrote about babysitting Miller when he was an “awkward, funny, needy middle child who loved to chase attention.”
She described him as a kid who reminded her of “Alex P. Keaton, young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless. Or so I thought.”
The post continued:
But I was so deeply wrong. And the realization that I didn’t know you at all? It guts me. I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen. And I grieve what I’ve lost because of it. I grieve your children I will never meet. I grieve the future family you’ve stolen from me by choosing a path so filled with cruelty that I cannot, and will not, be a part of it. I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.
I grieve for the power you’ve been given and for those around you who have enabled it. I grieve for the family I once loved, who lifted me up, who helped me through life, who made me feel safe, who now leave me feeling unsettled and even afraid. I grieve the realization that maybe I never really knew these people at all. My heart breaks every day, over and over.
But most of all, I grieve for those directly harmed by your actions For the communities here in Los Angeles, our shared home, for all of California, and the rest of the country terrorized by the cruelty you have brought upon us all. I grieve for the families shattered by cruelty dressed up as “immigration policy.” Targeting hardworking, vibrant community members who are being terrorized for simply being brown. This was never about criminals. Or “illegal” entry.
Kasmer wrote that growing up Jewish exposed them to stories about surviving pogroms, ghettos, and the Holocaust.
“We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say ‘never again.’ But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught,” she wrote.
Read the full Facebook post here.
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