Jewish senator likens Trump immigration policy to US blocking Jews in 1930s

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says President Trump has re-created the “paper wall” that kept those fleeing Nazi Germany from entering America.

As reported by The Times of Israel, Senator Ron Wyden, a son of Jewish parents who fled Nazi Germany, compared President rump’s immigration policies to that of the United States in the 1930s when many Jewish refugees fleeing persecution were blocked from coming to the U.S.

“The president has rebuilt the infamous paper wall like that of the 1930s that kept too many Jews out of the United States, trapping them within the murderous regime of Nazi Germany,” Wyden said in a speech on the Senate floor.

“In 2020, caring people looked back and recognized that paper wall and our failure to save more people from execution at the hands of the Nazis. It was a staggering humanitarian disaster, a real stain on American history,” he said.

As the Times reports, “Trump’s immigration policies, spearheaded by Jewish adviser Stephen Miller, include a ban on travelers and immigrants from over a dozen Muslim-majority countries and a `zero tolerance’ approach to migrants who tried to cross the southern border, which led to hundreds of family separations.”

KJ