Katie
Miller Threatens Cenk Uygur With Deportation During Heated Debate
Miller
also accused Uygur of being antisemitic toward her, despite Uygur making no
mention of her faith or ethnicity.
By Chris
Walker , Truthout
PublishedOctober
31, 2025
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During a
heated debate on Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” YouTube program, Katie Miller, a
far right former Trump administration official and wife to current Deputy Chief
of Staff Stephen Miller, suggested that her co-panelist on the show,
progressive commentator Cenk Uygur, should be deported.
During
the program, Uygur accused Miller and her husband of spreading myriad
falsehoods in order to advance President Donald Trump’s political agenda. “It’s
very normal for a Miller to be completely and utterly lying,” Uygur said on the
program.
This
prompted Miller to baselessly accuse Uygur of attacking her and her family for
being Jewish. Uygur did not make any comments regarding her family’s faith or
ethnicity during the program.
Uygur had
also posited on the program that criticism of Israel, particularly over its
years-long genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, didn’t amount to an antisemitic
attack on Jewish people in general.
During a
back-and-forth that delved out of control, Miller threatened Uygur directly.
“You
better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal
and correct,” Miller told him, implying he could be deported based on any small
error in that document.
Uygur was
born in Istanbul, Türkiye, in 1970. He and his family emigrated to the U.S.
when he was 8 years old, and he became a naturalized U.S. citizen shortly
afterward.
Following
the program, Uygur responded to Miller’s threat against him, mocking her for
being unable to debate him in a more meaningful way.
“I hope I
don’t get deported for winning a debate,” Uygur said on X, sharing the video of
the short exchange in his post. “If Princess Snowflake is going to enter the
arena, she has to understand there’s no crying to mommy. If she asks her
husband to deport everyone she loses a debate to, we’re going to start running
out of people.”
In a
statement to HuffPost, Uygur noted:
It’s
deeply ironic that the people who claimed to champion free speech are now
trying to deport people who speak out against them.
Miller’s
threat to Uygur is in line with the actual policy of the Trump administration,
which has repeatedly threatened to deport students on visas who have been
critical of U.S. policy, particularly the White House’s support of Israel
during its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The administration
has indeed sought to punish a number of individuals, including:
Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University
student and green card holder who was detained by immigration officials after
leading campus demonstrations against Israel’s genocide;
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student who
was detained after writing an op-ed in support of Palestinian rights;
And over 600 students across 100 universities and
colleges that have had their visas revoked over their pro-Palestinian views.
“If we
open the door to expelling foreign students who peacefully express ideas out of
step with the current administration about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we
should expect it to swing wider to encompass other viewpoints too,” wrote Sarah
McLaughlin, senior scholar on global expression at the Foundation for
Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), in an opinion piece published earlier
this year. “Today, it may be alleged ‘Hamas sympathizers’ facing threats of
deportation for their political expression. Who could it be in four years? In
eight?”
The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has also blasted the administration for
denying immigrants living in the U.S. their fundamental human rights.
“[Immigration
and Customs Enforcement] has illegally snatched multiple people from their
homes and neighborhoods, threatened their legal status, and shipped them across
the country with no notice to their loved ones or legal team — all in
retaliation for constitutionally protected speech. … If the government can come
after one of us for speech the administration disagrees with, they can — and
will — come after any of us,” the organization wrote in a petition calling on
Congress to stand up to Trump’s anti-free speech actions.
Chris
Walker
Chris
Walker is a news writer at Truthout, and is based out of Madison, Wisconsin.
Focusing on both national and local topics since the early 2000s, he has
produced thousands of articles analyzing the issues of the day and their impact
on the American people. He can be found on most social media platforms under
the handle @thatchriswalker.
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