‘Reverse colonisation’: Trump ally Stephen Miller says 'neo-liberal' project on immigration failed and 'citizens paid the price'

Stephen Miller, a close aide to Donald Trump and a former DOGE staffer, has reignited the immigration debate with a sweeping critique of the West’s post-war choices, arguing that modern policies have turned decolonisation into self-inflicted decline.

In a post on X, Miller slammed what he described as the former government’s immigration approach, claiming Western nations opened their doors at the expense of their own citizens.


"Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful). "

According to him, migrants were not only admitted but granted welfare benefits, political rights and, in some cases, preferential legal and financial treatment over native populations.

"The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry. The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world," he added.

Stephen Miller was known for his anti-immigration views and played a key role in the family separation policy, in which children were taken from parents who had illegally crossed the US-Mexico border.