Although Cenk Uygur — longtime co-host of "The Young Turks" with Ana Kasparian — was born in Istanbul, Turkey, he has lived in the United States since he was eight and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. But when Uygur got into a shouting match with MAGA influencer Katie Miller during a late October appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," she threatened to have him deported.
Uygur and Katie Miller, wife of Trump White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, had a heated debate over Trump Administration policies. And Katie Miller told Uygur, "You better check your citizenship application."
On X, formerly Twitter, Miller's comment is drawing a scathing rebuke.
Journalist Sulaiman Ahmed, typing mostly in caps, tweeted, Stephen Miller's wife threatens to have Cenk Uygur deported after losing debate. [Cenk Uygur] is a naturalized U.S citizen."
Sam Stein of the conservative website The Bulwark humorously wrote, "Threatening to sic ICE on your cable news interlocutor is a new one. I should have tried that with [Jon Lemire]."
X user Mike Young wrote, "There's a difference between defending immigration policy and performing cruelty. Katie Miller didn’t debate Cenk Uygur; she tried to intimidate him. Threatening someone's citizenship on live TV isn’t argumentation, it's authoritarian cosplay with a studio audience. We used to expect leaders to persuade, not provoke fear. The moment you weaponize the idea of belonging, you've stopped talking about law and started talking about hierarchy. America's strength has always come from people who became citizens because they believed in its promise, not because they feared its punishment. The line between patriotism and nationalism is accountability. One builds a nation; the other burns it down for applause."
X user Juicy Lee posted, "I heard that and thought, 'Oh, oh!' Did she just threaten him? Will she go home and cry to her husband about how mean the man was to her and now she wants him gone."