Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz recently sparked controversy by comparing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to Nazi Germany’s notorious secret police, the Gestapo.
In recent months, other Democratic politicians, including U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, have also compared ICE to the Gestapo, or Adolf Hitler’s secret police, as Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts said in April.
Do ICE’s tactics actually resemble those of the Gestapo? Daniel Magilow, professor of German and a scholar of the Holocaust, says the answer is complicated. Read more at The Conversation.
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