Just in case you didn’t think there were enough callbacks to Nazi Germany in the illegal immigration debate, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has got you covered.
“I’m going to tell you right now, I’m one of them people who believes we should give our neighbors sanctuary,” the congressman and Democratic National Committee Deputy Chairman said this week at an event titled “Beyond DACA.”
“And if you ask yourself what would I do if I was a gentile in 1941, if my Jewish neighbors were under attack by – by the Nazis? Would I give them sanctuary? You might be about to find out what you would do. Would you pass that moral test or will you fail it? This is the time for people who truly have faith and belief in their hearts to step up and demonstrate,” he added.
We’re going to go out on a limb here and suggest that possible deportation for undocumented immigrants is not exactly the same thing as the Nazis going from house-to-house looking for Jews to exterminate. Just a slight difference, really.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, who is Jewish, seems to think Ellison is just a little off, and he referred to the congressman’s remarks as “insane.”
“[T]he reference with regard to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], that ICE is somehow a Nazi force in enforcing the immigration laws is just absurd,” he said in a recent interview.
Shapiro added, “The idea that people who are here illegally who have been living in the country in largely freedom, many of their kids are going to public schools, they are taking advantage of public benefits, they have jobs here — the idea that this is the same thing as making legal citizens of your country illegal and then throwing them into concentration camps or gassing them is just beyond the pale.”
Ellison should know better than to abuse the tragedy of the Holocaust to make a political point.
