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Stephen Miller

Stephen N. Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor who has served as the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and the United States homeland security advisor since 2025. Miller served as a senior advisor to the president and the White House director of speechwriting from 2017 to 2021 during the first Donald Trump presidency.

Miller's political views emerged in his teens where he grew up in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. He displayed an early rapport with the media. At Duke University he was a columnist at ''The Chronicle'', director of the Duke Conservative Union, and president of the university's chapter of Students for Academic Freedom. After graduating in 2007, he was press secretary for U.S. representatives Michele Bachmann and John Shadegg, and in 2009, began working for Alabama U.S. senator Jeff Sessions. Miller and Sessions defeated the bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. As an aide to Sessions, Miller influenced the direction of ''Breitbart News''.

Miller advised both of Trump's presidential campaigns. After Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election, Miller remained with Trump. In April 2021, Miller established America First Legal, a conservative public interest organization.

Miller has been influential and controversial in both Trump presidential terms. As architect of anti-immigration policies, he has advocated for family separation and detention. As director of speechwriting—Trump's words are often Miller's—he supervised writing of inaugural and State of the Union addresses. As policy advisor, Miller wrote and oversaw writing executive orders that distinguished Trump's presidencies such as the Muslim travel ban. Provided by Wikipedia