Stephen Miller And 'The Camp Of The Saints,' A White Nationalist Reference
The White House adviser has read the racist 1973 book, according to leaked emails. For far-right activists, the work of fiction has helped to shape real ideology and anti-immigration stances.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Nov 19, 2019
4 minutes
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller is an immigration hard-liner. He's engineered the Trump administration's family-separation policy and its travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries.
But last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center detailed leaked emails in which it says Miller encouraged far-right website Breitbart to promote white supremacist ideas. In one message, Miller references a book of fiction: "Someone should point out the parallels to Camp of the Saints."
is a 1973 French novel by Jean Raspail that has become a key inspiration within white nationalist circles. It portrays a dystopia, or perhaps an apocalypse: a
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