A Republican Colorado state representative who came to the U.S. legally and is descended from a Holocaust survivor slammed his Democrat colleague for comparing President Donald Trump’s recent deportations of illegal aliens to the Nazis rounding up Jews.
State Rep. Lorena Garcia, a sponsor of the immigration bill SB 25-276, spoke in a hearing on the bill Monday, condemning the Trump administration for “disappearing people” and comparing his deportations to the Holocaust.
“We have to stand up and fight against the Trump administration disappearing people,” she said. “We have been down this road before, committee. We have seen what happens when an authoritarian government decides to ignore the Constitution, and that resulted in the Holocaust. And to even pretend that there is anything different, then I encourage you to pick up a history book.”
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