Alisa Kasmer, the cousin of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, called Miller “the face of evil” and said she wanted nothing to do with him in a public July 18 Facebook post that has recently gone viral. Miller is the architect and alleged mastermind behind the Trump Administration’s violent and unconstitutional mass deportation efforts against undocumented immigrants.

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Kasmer wrote. “Our privilege [of wealth and opportunity in the U.S.] has been wasted on cruelty and torture, targeting the very people who make our communities whole—the hardest workers, the most vulnerable, the ones who carry this country on their backs. A society is only as strong as its most vulnerable, and ours are at their weakest. This is not by accident, but by design. Your design, Stephen.”

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She wrote that, as a younger person, Miller used to strike her as “young, conservative, maybe misguided, but lovable and harmless.”

“But I was so deeply wrong,” she wrote. “It guts me. I grieve what you’ve become, Stephen…. by choosing a path so filled with cruelty that I cannot, and will not, be a part of.”

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“But most of all, I grieve for those directly harmed by your actions,” she added. “For the communities here in Los Angeles, our shared home, for all of California, and the rest of the country terrorized by the cruelty you have brought upon us all. I grieve for the families shattered by cruelty dressed up as ‘immigration policy.'”

She said it especially hurts seeing Miller’s actions since they were both raised Jewish.

“We were raised with stories of survival,” she wrote. “We learned about pogroms, ghettos, the Holocaust—not just as history, but as part of our identity. We carry the trauma of generations who were hunted, hated, expelled, murdered, just for existing. We were taught to remember. We celebrated holidays each year with the reminder to stand up and say “never again.” But what you are doing breaks that sacred promise. It breaks everything we were taught. How can you do to others what has been done to us? How can you wake up each day and repeat the cruelty that our people barely escaped from?”

“You’ve destroyed so many lives just to feed your own obsession and ego and uphold an administration so corrupt, so vile, I can barely comprehend it,” she added.

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