Omar Draws Fire After Comparing Miller’s Migrant Remarks to Nazi Rhetoric

Rep. 👤Ilhan Omar used a Sunday interview to forcefully condemn comments about migrants made by White House deputy chief of staff 👤Stephen Miller, arguing that his language echoes historical moments of dehumanization.

According to Fox News, the Minnesota Democrat’s criticism came after CBS host Margaret Brennan asked her to respond to a social media post from Miller.

In the post, he wrote, “No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

Omar rejected the characterization outright.

She called Miller’s description “White supremacist rhetoric” and said it carried disturbing similarities to rhetoric used in some of the darkest chapters of history.

“It reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” Omar said.

She pointed to multiple examples from past waves of immigration, noting that groups now fully woven into American society were once targeted with the same type of language.

“There have been many immigrants who have tried to come to the United States who have turned back, you know, one of them being Jewish immigrants,” she said. “We know the way that people were described who were coming from Ireland, Irish immigrants. We know the way in which people were described back then, when there were Italian immigrants.”