[caption id=”attachment_146561″ align=”aligncenter” width=”3000″] Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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Hillary Clinton is taking heat after her comments about the Republican immigration proposals were interpreted by many as a Holocaust reference.
During the Democratic National Committee conference, Clinton was asked about how she would handle the immigration issue and she used it as a platform to slam GOP proposals that have been floated on the campaign trail.
She said that the ideas put out there by people like Donald Trump were “appalling.”
“The height of irony that a party which espouses small government would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort– including perhaps National Guard and others– to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, I don’t know, in buses, boxcars, in order to take them across our border,” Clinton said.
The use of the term “boxcar” was taken by many to mean a reference to the mass deportations and round-ups that the Nazis used during World War II.
However, after the backlash, Nick Merill with the Clinton campaign denied that charge, according to The Blaze.
He said it was a common way to refer to it and pointed out that Jeb Bush had done the same in late June.
“I don’t think our country is going to be the kind of country that puts people on boxcars and sends them away,” said Bush at that time.
This wouldn’t have been the first time last week Clinton made a controversial comparison. She compared pro-life Republicans to terrorists in an earlier speech.
Watch Clinton’s comment below and decide for yourself:
