Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said there would not be as many attacks against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers if politicians stopped comparing them to the “gestapo.”
Since the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE officer, some politicians have compared the agency’s operations to those carried out by the Nazis. Concha was shown a clip of Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) saying these ICE scenes remind her of 1930s Germany.
“Clearly [Craig] is someone who did not study what was happening in 1930s Germany,” Concha said in response to the clip on Fox & Friends First. “This is the same politician, by the way, who compared what happened in Minneapolis last week to a political stunt.”
Renee Good was shot and killed last week by an ICE officer in Minneapolis while an anti-ICE protest was happening on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security reported that the officer who killed Good was struck by her vehicle and suffered internal bleeding.
Concha said the ICE officer was “obviously” hit and “suffered” after watching the videos taken from the incident.
“Maybe we wouldn’t have so many ICE (officers) attacked at this point if politicians like Angie Craig … or Tim Walz or Mayor Jacob Frey didn’t compare them to the Gestapo,” Concha said. “I believe the Gestapo wasn’t expelling and deporting the most dangerous criminals who entered the country illegally in 1930s Germany.”
“We’re talking sex traffickers, we’re talking rapists, we’re talking child molesters, and instead you see ICE (officers) being attacked by fireworks and being dragged,” he added.
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Concha highlighted that despite overwhelming evidence, Craig is still defending the Somali community in the Minnesota fraud scheme and attacking ICE officers who are “simply doing their job.”
“Minnesota is a mess right now,” he said. “You might as well call it Mogadishu.”