Stephen Miller, the architect behind some of the Trump administration’s most ruthless immigration policies, has been publicly disowned by his own family in a scathing and emotional rebuke that has gone viral. His cousin, Alisa Kasmer, did not hold back when she called Miller “the face of evil” in a raw Facebook post that has since resurfaced and shaken the family to its core.
Kasmer, who grew up alongside Miller, painted a picture of a boy once “awkward, funny, needy,” someone she saw as “young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless.” But that image shattered as Miller transformed into the driving force behind policies that tore apart immigrant families and targeted vulnerable communities with unprecedented cruelty.
“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Kasmer wrote. “I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen… I will never knowingly let evil into my life, no matter whose blood it carries—including my own.”
Her post, made earlier this summer but revived by recent social media activity, revealed that most of Miller’s extended family has now cut ties with him, refusing to accept the man he has become.
Kasmer’s condemnation is especially painful given the family’s shared Jewish heritage, which carries the heavy legacy of surviving persecution. “We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say ‘never again,’” she said. “But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught.”
Miller was the mastermind behind immigration policies that pushed aggressive enforcement quotas—ICE was reportedly pressured to carry out at least 3,000 arrests per day, though the goal was never fully met. His role in these efforts is at the heart of the family’s outrage.
“Where does this hateful obsession end? What are you trying to build besides fear? Immigrants were a part of your upbringing. Is this cruelty your way of rejecting a part of yourself?” Kasmer demanded, exposing what she sees as a deeply personal betrayal.
She described Miller’s transformation as “a perfect storm of ego, fear, hate, and ambition—all of it mangled into something cruel and hollow, masquerading as strength.”
“You’ve destroyed so many lives just to feed your own obsession and ego,” she wrote, her words a devastating indictment. “Being this close to such deep cruelty fills me with shame. I am gutted. My heart breaks that this is the legacy you have brought to our family.”
Miller’s critics within his own family are not new. In 2018, his uncle David Glosser publicly condemned him as an “immigration hypocrite,” lamenting how Miller had become “the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.”
But Kasmer’s words cut even deeper. This is no mere political disagreement. It’s a family torn apart, a reckoning with the painful truth that someone they once loved has become, in their eyes, a symbol of cruelty and division.
