2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson compared Immigration Customs and Enforcement raids to what Jewish people faced in Nazi Germany during an event Tuesday in New Hampshire.
Williamson began by identifying herself as Jewish before explaining that in her opinion the phrase commonly associated with the Holocaust, “Never again,” means never letting similar things happen to any group of people, not just Jewish people.
“It’s happening again,” she stated. “There are some people who would say to me, ‘now Ms. Williamson, I think this Jewish analogy, you’ve really gone too far there. This is not the same situation at all.’”
“But ladies and gentlemen some of those people will be deported to places so dangerous that it actually is no different,” Williamson said, and then expounded in an interview with Vice News, “I don’t know about you, but I have visited the Anne Frank House. I’ve been to those places where people hid Jews in the basement. When I think of the fear that some people are going through right now after the president made that announcement, you know, where are they going to go?”
She later acknowledged that while migrants being picked up by ICE will not be sent to gas chambers, some individuals who get deported may “be returned to certain violence.”
Her comments came only a day after President Trump announced that ICE “will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States.”
Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States. They will be removed as fast as they come in. Mexico, using their strong immigration laws, is doing a very good job of stopping people…….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2019
Williamson is not the first person this week to compare the current immigration system to the Holocaust.
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faced criticism for arguing that detention centers were comparable to concentration camps.
