My Coffee with Stephen Miller
A staffer for Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ultraconservative Republican from Alabama, reached out to me for a meeting about a dozen years ago.
We met at a coffee shop, where he pitched an idea: liberals who care about American workers should join forces with immigration restrictionists, as fewer immigrants would mean more jobs for American citizens.
Shouldn’t liberals who care about American workers make common cause with immigration restrictionists? Fewer immigrants, he contended, would mean more jobs available for American citizens.
This article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. Author's note: A surprising encounter that would change my perspective.