This week, the spiritual leader of the Democratic party equated law enforcement along the southern border to Nazis. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made the comparison in a video and then tweeted, “This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.”
As the Herald’s Sean Philip Cotter reports, the Boston head of ICE is understandably upset.
“To be compared to a concentration camp is very disheartening,” Todd Lyons, deputy director of Boston’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, said Tuesday on Boston Herald Radio.
“We did a lot of good immigration enforcement from 2010 to 2016, so it’s extremely frustrating when that same work is compared to being such horrific acts — when in the past we were praised for the enforcement actions we took,” Lyons said. “To be painted with a broad brush like that, especially with comments that are so inaccurate, is disheartening.”
Obviously, Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks were absurd and inaccurate but they were also deeply demeaning to victims of the Nazi Holocaust and highly insulting to law enforcement.
The Boston ICE chief has sounded off. Where are the loud condemnations from inside Boston City Hall? Where is the strong denunciation of the freshman congresswoman and show of support for ICE from Mayor Walsh? City Hall towers over the New England Holocaust Memorial, which lists 2,280,960 numbers on its 132 panels representing the 6 million Jews who perished during the Holocaust.
Now would be a good time for a few words on their behalf.
