White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said in a post on X on Thursday that asylum claims in the United States are "all fake" and argued that migrants use birthright citizenship to generate what he described as "industrial-scale remittance farming."
"Everyone involved in the asylum system knows and understands the claims are all fake," Miller wrote, adding that migrants seek access to U.S. welfare benefits and that having a U.S.-born child provides financial support for families abroad. He claimed that "entire foreign economies are sustained by U.S. welfare remittances," linking his argument directly to longstanding criticism of birthright citizenship policies.
