By Steve Levy
Can you imagine being a relative of a person of Jewish faith who was gassed and burned in the Holocaust or a descendant of an African-American slave and then hearing Minnesota Tim Walz compare the horrors your ancestors faced to an individual who is here illegally and is threatened with deportation? It is a disgusting insult to the deaths and enslavement of the millions of people who had to endure some of history’s most heinous crimes.
When leftist politicians inject the Holocaust or Nazis into a debate, they cheapen the horrors that were experienced by the victims of the Nazis, the Holocaust and the slave trade
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) compared the mission of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to that of those enforcing the slave trade.
It simply can’t be denied that any slave held in 19th-century America or anywhere else in the world would, in a heartbeat, have changed places with an illegal immigrant in America today whose biggest fear is simply having to be sent back to the country from which they came.
People who were rounded up by the Nazis and put into concentration camps, gassed and burned did not have the option to leave. People who were put in chains and brought to America to be someone’s property did not have the ability to walk away and resume their lives elsewhere.
Illegal aliens have this choice. They chose to come here illegally. They can choose to go back to their original country anytime they want. And the worst that will happen to them — if they are apprehended — is to be sent back. Of course, those who committed heinous crimes will have to serve prison time.
But to compare any of these individuals with those who were murdered or enslaved is an outrage. Shame, shame, shame on any of them that cheapen slavery and the Holocaust by doing so.