Is American Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) anything like the Nazi stormtroopers of 1930s Germany?
To hear the Congressman Keith Ellison talk about it, they’re nearly one and the same!
This kind of emotional plea always plays well to liberals and progressives who prefer to take the side of immigrants who are supposedly suffering from “persecution.” But instead of looking at this comparison Ellison made recently in a Minneapolis speech from an emotional standpoint, why don’t we take a look at it from a rational one, as suggested by Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire in this clip from Fox News.
First of all — are the immigrants that ICE rounds up residing in the U.S. legally, or illegally?
By definition of the agency tasked with their apprehension, they’re indeed here illegally. This is as opposed to Jews who were arrested by Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s — who were ordinary citizens of countries like Germany and Austria until that citizenship was stripped from them.
Second of all, once the illegal aliens in our country are apprehended, are they placed in rail cars and shipped off to concentration camps and gas chambers?
The answer to this question is obviously a resounding “No!”, and Ellison is patently aware of this.
In fact, in these and many other aspects of Ellison’s argument, he’s just flat-out wrong, but to people who only hear an emotional side of the story, little things like facts get in the way of what they consider to be an appropriate response.
Watch this clip, as the always-entertaining Shapiro makes a solid case that Ellison uses wild conjecture instead of rational thought as the source for his latest far-fetched argument.
