>> Stephen Miller's wife, Katie, is just as gross as he is when it comes to the way immigrants
are treated, and the way that they think about people of color in this country and elsewhere.
And nothing makes that clearer than what Jacob Soboroff shared in his upcoming book.
It's called Separated. And as you can imagine, it covers some of the zero-tolerance policy
that took place at the border, where children were taken away from their parents. Children
were placed in cages, separately from their parents. And dozens of people have died including,
I know for a fact, seven children, but the numbers are likely higher.
There's been a lack of reporting coming from Border Patrol recently, so the exact number
is difficult to follow. But nonetheless, here's what Katie Miller shared with Jacob Soboroff
in one of the interviews that he had with her. She said quote, my family and colleagues
told me that when I have kids, I'll think about the separations differently, but I don't
think so.
DHS sent me to the border to see the separations for myself, to try to make me more compassionate,
but it didn't work. So just how bad are the conditions in these detention facilities?
Again, so bad that dozens of asylum seekers have died. In June of 2019, a team of lawyers
actually spoke to the Associated Press and said that they found children and teenagers
held in a facility near El Paso, Texas, without adequate access to food, water, or sanitation.
The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security also released a report last
year saying that, according to program directors and mental health clinicians, separated children
exhibited more fear, feelings of abandonment, and post-traumatic stress than did children
who were not separated. Some children expressed acute grief that caused them to cry inconsolably.
And this type of trauma, of course, has a long-term impact, negative impact on these
children's lives. But these are the children who managed to survive the cruelty. There
have been plenty of children who have not survived it. One of them was actually a 16-year-old
asylum seeker by the name of Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez.
We covered his death on this show. But I wanna just go to a video, really demonstrating how
horrific his death really was because of the neglect in this detention facility.
>> For almost a half hour, Vasquez appears to be doubling over in pain. After falling
to the floor, he then walks to the toilet where he collapses, then a four hour gap in
the video.
Records obtained by ProPublica show an agent logged welfare checks, but the gap in the
video raises questions about whether that actually happened. When the video comes back,
Vasquez is in the same spot. A cellmate is then seen calling the guards, who realize
he's dead. The video contradicts Customs and Border Protection's earlier statements that
Vasquez was found unresponsive during a welfare check.
>> So Cenk, Miller's wife had some thoughts on Cuban Americans as well, which I'll get
to in a second, but I wanted you to comment on the story so far.
>> Yeah, well, I guess I'm happy for Stephen and Katie Miller. They found each other, peas
in a pod.
So of course, Katie Miller, way more important than being Stephen Miller's wife, is the spokesperson
for the vice president. So she holds a very powerful job in the government. It's interesting
that Department of Homeland Security sent her to the border. DHS is no one's softy,
and especially under the Trump administration.
But they're like, wow, this Katie Miller is so monstrous that we might wanna send her
to see how bad we really are. And she's saying the story, that DHS sent her so that she could
be more compassionate. And she gets there and she's like, no, that didn't work at all,
man.
I remain as uncompassionate as I have ever been, that'll show them. And so it's not surprising,
I suppose, that her and Stephen Miller found each other in these conservative circles.
But it's a curious thing to brag about in a situation like this. And it's the main defining
trait of both Stephen and Katie, and a lot of these conservatives especially in the Trump
Era, is complete lack of empathy.
>> Lack of empathy, and also they're just stupid. And I'm not just saying that to insult
them. Katie Miller, based on what I'm about to read to you, is stupid. Because if she
were smart, if she were strategic, she would not say what I'm about to read to you.
She also told Jacob Soboroff quote, I believe if you come to America, you should assimilate.
Why do you need to have a Little Havana? So she's referencing Cuban Americans and their
culture. Which is a curious, curious group to pick out, because most of them are actually
Republicans. Most of them support Donald Trump, and needlessly antagonizing them isn't gonna
work out so well for you.
Now, that's only if the media does its job, and they talk about this and shed light on
the fact that Donald Trump and people who work for him have utter disdain for everyone
who isn't wealthy and who isn't white. And so that includes Cuban Americans, the same
Cuban Americans who just last month in Miami Lakes held a rally in support of Donald Trump.
They wanted to speak out against Black Lives Matter. And the group that you're about to
hear from, the group that hosted this rally in Miami Lakes, is titled Cubans for Trump.
So let's just get a little taste, a little taste of what this group looks like.
>> What's your name, ma'am?
Are you here attending the protest? >> Blue lives matters. I can't believe you
that come from Massachusetts. >> I'm a reporter for the Miami Herald.
>> You know what, I'm a police, Miami-Dade Police.
>> You're a Miami Lakes police officer- >> Miami-Dade Police.
>> What's your name, ma'am?
>> I don't wanna you. >> Miami-Dade Police.
>> Now, you think that Trump supporter, with that thick Cuban accent, is someone who's
respected, or loved, or valued by the Katie Millers of the world? Of course, not. And
it is incredible, because they can really expose their utter disdain for their own voters
and supporters.
And usually, they don't pay any consequences for it. But it's just amazing, why Little
Havana? Out of any group that you could attack, she decided to attack a group that's actually
supportive of Trump. >> See-
>> Cuz she's stupid. >> Yeah, I hear you, and that's a compelling
case.
But for Cuban Republicans, they think they're special. No, the Republicans that are in charge
like Trump, and Stephen Miller, and Katie Miller, they like us Latinos cuz we agree
with them. No, they think you just look like all the other Latinos. They're happy that
you're a sucker and you vote for them.
But at the end of the day, she can't even tell the difference between the people that
you like putting in cages, and you. She would put you in a cage, she would separate you
from your kids. Why did she use the example of Little Havana? Because when talking about
the issue of separation at the border that has nothing to do with Cubans, other than
the fact that the only thing that connects them is that they're Latinos.
So, in fact, let me read you the beginning of that quote, cuz it's really instructive.
Soboroff asked her, it didn't work, about the compassion? I'll never forget what I saw.
Seriously, are you a white nationalist, he asked Katie Miller. And Katie Miller responds
no, but. First of all, I can end it that right there.
Are you a white nationalist? No, but, and what's about to follow is something that's
going to sound white nationalist, and then the rest of the quote. No, but I believe if
you come to America, you should assimilate. Why do we need to have a Little Havana? Cuban,
Mexican, Guatemalan, whatever, they're all brown to Katie Miller.
She doesn't know. And by the way, what does assimilation have anything to do with child
separation at the border? The only thing that connects those two totally disparate issues
is Katie Miller's hatred of brown Latinos. And so if you're a Cuban Republican and you
think they're on your side, they certainly don't think you're on their side.
They just think you're a convenient sucker.