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Concentration camps? Comparisons to Nazi Germany? Oh yes
Well, I’ve got to weigh in here with a repeat posting of a piece I published in October 2017 about Aristides de Sousa Mendes, because how he dealt with frantic refugees in southern France after the German invasion is pertinent … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Bo Lidegaard, Border Control, concentration camps, Countrymen, Denmark and Jews in WWII, DHS, German invasion of Denmark, ICE, Maurice Papon, Nazi concentration camps, southern border refugees, US concentration camps, US southern border, Vichy France
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The deep moral question: “Do you stick your neck out?”
Two from the Times today link to my essays about Casablanca and Aristides de Sousa Mendes–who did stick his neck out. Will anyone in our so-called government have the moral strength to do the same? ICE courthouse arrests and deportations … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Casablanca, ICE, ICE at courthouses, immigrant deportations, immigration, Immigraton and Customs Enforcement, Paul Henreid, Trump immigration policy
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Homeland Security, home of America’s Maurice Papon(s)
Haitians, front page news in the Times. Two questions: Who was Maurice Papon? And when will we see an American Aristides de Sousa Mendes?
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Haitian deportations, Maurice Papon
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