Stephen Miller Suggests U.S. Citizens Should Get Reparations for “Damages Inflicted by Mass Migration.”

Stephen Miller, President Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, said that U.S. citizens are owed reparations for “damages inflicted by mass migration.”

His comments, made in an interview on Newsmax, came in response to a proposal from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who suggested imposing daily fines on the government for its refusal to comply with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

Miller rejected the idea of any compensation for the Abrego Garcia case, saying that the real victims are American citizens affected by the influx of unlawful immigrants into the country:

“Where does our whole country go to get repaid for all of the wealth, all of the prosperity and security that has been stolen from us by decades of uncontrolled, illegal mass migration? We all deserve reparations for what has been stolen from us”

Miller went on to link immigration to a broad range of societal issues, including school performance, crime, and drug overdoses, though he offered no data to support the connections.

“We used to have a functioning public school system in this country,” Miller claimed. “Then we had open borders. Nobody’s learning how to read or write. An entire generation of Americans—multiple generations, in fact—have been robbed of educational opportunities.”

Miller then went further, citing the rise of gangs, fentanyl deaths, and attacks on law enforcement as reasons to view immigration as a source of national harm. “Where do any of these people go? Where do any of their families go to get reparations?” he asked, referring to victims of violence and drug overdoses. “There aren’t enough volumes that could fit into a library to calculate the carnage that has been inflicted by the Democratic Party’s policy of open borders.”

Miller’s remarks build on previous efforts by the Trump administration to associate immigration with crime, including attempts to link Abrego Garcia—without conclusive evidence—to the MS-13 gang. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals previously described the evidence for that claim as “thin, to say the least.”

The administration’s stance on Abrego Garcia has drawn criticism for conflating unrelated incidents with the specifics of his case. Despite a Supreme Court mandate, the government has not yet arranged for his return.