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Stephen Miller's new bullshit about immigrants Miller and his boss are now targeting Minnesota's Somali community Robert Reich Dec 27 Friends, Trump’s Chief Bigot, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News this month that immigrants to the United States bring problems that extend through generations. “With a lot of these immigrant groups, not only is the first generation unsuccessful,” Miller claimed. “You see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.” In fact, the data show just the opposite. The children and grand children and great grandchildren of most immigrants are models of upward mobility in America. In a   new paper ,  Princeton’s Leah Boustan, Stanford’s Ran Abramitzky, Elisa Jácome of Princeton, and Santiago Pérez of UC Davis, used millions of father-son pairs spanning more than a century of U.S. history to show that immigrants today are no ...