For the second day in a row, people protesting without a permit have shut down Los Angeles roadways and assaulted police officers, and for the second day in a row Mayor Karen Bass has publicly ignored the situation and privately told officers to stand down and retreat.
The lawbreakers, many of them holding flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries, say they’re there to protest ICE raids, which they claim are picking up sweet little abuelas and whisking them off to concentration camps. Seriously. Listen to this man interviewed live during Fox LA’s Five O’Clock News.
The unidentified man said, when asked why he was there:
“For La Raza, for the race. Like, people been working hard, they’ve been doing their thing out here in this country, L.A. specifically, and — just to get thrown out? Come on, man. Like, you just — it’s like going back to Auschwitz. Come on. He’s separating people from their kids, from their family. No warning shots. Just taking them away.”
The anchor, Elex Michaelson, then set the record straight on that:
“Yeah, of course, he compares this to Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a situation with German citizens who were taken to death camps where they were exterminated, a term of 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. This is a situation of potentially enforcing United States immigration law. Nobody is being taken to a death camp. There may be a disagreement over what’s happening here, but that comparison does not have anything to do with actual history of what happened in World War 2.”
Why would people think there was any connection between Auschwitz and what’s happening? That’s the propaganda leftists are spreading. […]
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