Would you compare the plight of illegal immigrants to the plight of the Jews in Nazi-Germany?

Question

When I read this article, I couldn't believe it....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902234_2.html

EXCERPTS FROM ARTICLE:

This has been a tense summer for the men who arrive each morning at the Center for Employment and Training in Gaithersburg, operated by the nonprofit CASA de Maryland. Many have no legal documents. They have anxiously followed the news of Virginia communities passing laws against illegal immigrants, of stepped-up factory raids and deportations. And they hear the angry voices.

"A guy hired me the other day to do some painting. I got in his van and right away he turned on the radio. It was one of those stations that is full of hateful talk against immigrants. I just sat in the back and said nothing, but it made me feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany.

I guess I am uninformed. How dare we put illegal immigrants in concentration camps and gas chambers......

**rolling my eyes**

Answer 1

There where Jews in Nazi Germany, get the heck outta here.

Answer 2

Let's just go over some of their arguments
It is a civil right issue - Black Americans rejected that idea
It is a Native American issue - rejected by native Americans
it is about stolen land from Mexico- rejected by history
lettuce would cost $11.00 - rejected by supply and demand and the fact that we have legal fram workers
it will split up families - the children are dual citizens and can go home with parents
and so the list goes on and now we are to the Holocaust which not only included Jews but mentally ill, physically handicapped, Gypsies, other religions, and gays. It is beginning to look like they are running out of other groups to compare themselves to and reasons to use for staying here and breaking our laws.

Answer 3

The German jews were citizens of Germany that had been established for generations and assimilated into the society of their host country. They were legal and adopted their host country as their own showing their patriotism like everyone else. Learning the language and contributing to the greater good of the nation. They were persecuted and murdered by a madman who instilled fear in the German people and convinced them that the jews were to blame for all that was wrong in Germany. There is in no way any parallel between them and the illegal immigrants that come to the US expecting to be treated better than they are in their own countries.

Answer 4

Did the jews sneak into Germany? I missed that part. Are we putting yellow stars on illegal aliens for tracking sake? Is ICE rounding them all up and forcing them into camps? The man who said that either has no grasp of the scope of what he was trying to compare his plight to or he has a bad habit of blowing things way out of proportion. The way I see it, if illegal aliens don't feel comfortable here, the door swings both ways. They can leave and try to come back legally.

Answer 5

Well, Jews in Nazi Germany were citizens who had their humanity stripped away and were subjected to the most horrible depravity that the world has ever seen.

Illegal immigrants are people who are not citizens and have broken the law by entering this Country illegally in order to take advantage of a system that they have never contributed to, and the most horrible punishment that they suffer is being returned to their country of origin.

I fail to see a single similarity.

Answer 6

That is a pretty bizarre comparison, isn't it?

The last I heard, the immigrants, whether illegal or legal, are not being exterminated because of their religion or ethnicity. Come to think of it, I don't remember reading where they are being exterminated, period.

I'm from Northern Virginia, and my county just voted to require that police check identity papers on any person arrested, and anyone wanting to use county services. The last I checked, and I have a pretty good command of the English language, denying somone county services payed for by the taxpayers of that county does not equate to extermination. The word hyperbole comes to mind.

Just amazing, isn't it?

Answer 7

Wow.

I completely agree on this with you.

As a Jew,I'm highly offended by this trash.In no way,shape,or form,does the "Plight' of illegals approach that of European Jews during the Holocaust!

As a Liberal,I'm sickened how so many on the left have been taken in by the corporate propaganda which is doing it's best to force millions of illegals down our throats in order to create a vast,never ending pool of poor,underpaid workers....

Answer 8

We are not making immigrants from a certain ethnic group wear stars and sending them to concentration camps where they are gassed. We are deporting them to their home country no matter if it is Ireland or Mexico, these people need to go away they don't even know historically what happened in this world by comparing their not being able to commit illegal crimes by crossing our border and working without a visa to being gassed in extermination camps.

Answer 9

Maybe I'm uninformed, but I didn't know that the Jews had been sneaking into the Concentration Camps, nor that the US government has been sending Troops and trains to Mexico to break into their homes and round them up at gunpoint.

Answer 10

The differences are too numerous to list. Just the fact that the Jews were fleeing and the illegal immigrants are coming should make it absolutely clear that there really isn't any comparison.

Answer 11

No I wouldn't. I find the comparison ridiculous. The majority of immigrants are not fleeing from being executed. They are here illegally...They have no rights under the constitution. If they want those rights, and to be embraced as fellow countrymen, then file the proper paperwork and do it the right way.