Hiltzik: Stephen Miller says Americans will live better lives without immigrants. He's blowing smoke

Hiltzik: Stephen Miller says Americans will live better lives without immigrants. He's blowing smoke

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Story by Michael Hiltzik • 7h •

Stephen Miller, the front man for Donald Trump's deportation campaign against immigrants, took to the airwaves the other day to explain why native-born Americans will just love living in a world cleansed of undocumented workers.

"What would Los Angeles look like without illegal aliens?" he asked on Fox News. "Here's what it would look like: You would be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away, no wait time, no problems. Your kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who have special needs would get all the attention that they needed. ... There would be no fentanyl, there would be no drug deaths." Etc., etc.

No one can dispute that the world Miller described on Fox would be a paradise on Earth. No waiting at the ER? School districts flush with cash? No drug deaths? But that doesn't obscure that pretty much every word Miller uttered was fiction.

The gist of Miller's spiel — in fact, the worldview that he has been espousing for years — is that "illegal aliens" are responsible for all those ills, and exclusively responsible. It's nothing but a Trumpian fantasy.

Let's take a look, starting with overcrowding at the ER.

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