In 2018, I delivered a High Holy Day sermon that received some notoriety, because in it, I spoke out against one of my former congregants. I had something to say to my congregation about a policy the immorality of which I felt needed a vigorous Jewish American response — especially, in my opinion, because it was being championed by a Jewish American.

That Jewish American was Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump. Miller initiated and directed the Trump administration’s policy that forcibly separated young children from their undocumented parents, along with a score of other anti-immigrant proposals. I felt embarrassed and ashamed that a Jew in a leadership role could give voice and support to such inhumanity. And I felt further compromised because, for a couple years in Stephen Miller’s childhood, his family belonged to my synagogue.

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My family’s story would sound familiar to many Jewish Americans. My grandparents, like Miller’s great-grandparents, came to the United States to escape the economic, educational, and social bigotry of European antisemitism. Our ancestors were among the millions of Jews — like Americans of all faiths and backgrounds — who came here to build better lives for themselves and their children in the land of the free.

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Look, now, at how Miller and Trump want to treat this generation’s immigrants and their children. They are willing and eager to victimize the most vulnerable among us — even though the Book of Exodus demands, “There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you.” And the Book of Leviticus clearly states: “The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

https://forward.com/opinion/670756/stephen-miller-rabbi-trump-harris-jewish-values/

No need to look to a foreign nation’s government to find forces of antisemitism and xenophobia.