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Ocasio-Cortez Wants To Abolish ICE And It Just Deported A Nazi Living In The District She Hopes To Represent

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  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested and deported the last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. on Tuesday.
  • Jakiw Palij was living in Queens, New York, the district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is running in.
  • Ocasio-Cortez ran her campaign on abolishing ICE, raising questions from the Republican Party.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested and deported the last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. from his home in Queens, New York, on Tuesday, potentially raising questions for those who feel ICE should be abolished.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist who is running for office in New York’s 14th Congressional District, leads the movement to abolish ICE and ran on a platform of doing so because she wants to “see to it that our undocumented neighbors are treated with the dignity and respect owed to all people, regardless of citizenship status.”

Ocasio-Cortez has garnered support from several others in her party to abolish or severely re-examine the organization, but after ICE’s inarguably positive action of removing a war criminal from U.S. soil, Ocasio-Cortez’s movement could open itself up to criticism.

Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi SS labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland, was a resident of Queens, which is part of the district that Ocasio-Cortez is hoping to represent.

Ocasio-Cortez visited Los Angeles and attended a luncheon on Aug. 2 with Occupy ICE LA, a group that has repeatedly referred to ICE as the “Gestapo.”

The Gestapo was the secret Nazi police that enforced torture, imposed labor, starvation and other atrocities on the Jews during the Holocaust.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) pointed out the irony of Ocasio-Cortez’s call to abolish ICE in an email from its rapid response director, Michael Ahrens.

“Now that ICE has literally removed a Nazi from her backyard, where does Ocasio-Cortez stand?” he asked.

Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley, who currently serves New York’s 14th district, applauded ICE’s deportation of the former Nazi, in a tweet Tuesday.

Ocasio-Cortez did not respond to a request for comment by The Daily Caller News Foundation, but she tweeted Tuesday that her movement is essentially being misrepresented, and it does not call for an end to deportations.

In a statement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, the administration claims Palij was ordered for deportation in 2004, but past administrations failed to remove him.

“To protect the promise of freedom for Holocaust survivors and their families, President [Donald] Trump prioritized the removal of Palij,” Sanders said. “Through extensive negotiations, President Trump and his team secured Palij’s deportation to Germany and advanced the United States’ collaborative efforts with a key European ally.” (RELATED: Inside Trump’s Order To Deport Last Living Nazi In US)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a time when tensions are high between her country and the U.S., accepted Palij’s deportation and transfer back to Germany.

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