ICE director: Concentration camp comparisons ‘demoralizing’ border officials who care for migrants

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Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Mark Morgan said comparisons of federal immigration holding facilities to Nazi concentration camps are having a “demoralizing” effect on Border Patrol agents, as well as his agency’s employees, who are caring for tens of thousands of migrants in custody.

“It’s demoralizing them,” Morgan told Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham late Wednesday. “This kind of rhetoric — it’s irresponsible, reckless, and it’s flat-out wrong.”

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