The Somali American lawmaker’s comment comes after the noted racist and Homeland Security adviser essentially said migrants are ruining the U.S.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Sunday that the dehumanizing language used against immigrants by noted racist and Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller is similar to how Nazis spoke of Jewish people.
Miller, who was the architect behind the Trump administration’s immigration policies, used such language last month in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed urging Americans to refrain from demonizing all Afghan refugees, after one allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.
“This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies,” Miller said on X. “No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”
If we’re going to reflect on history honestly then we should remember that it wasn’t the white supremacy aspect that other European powers took issue with regarding Nazis. That was an accepted fact from their perspective. The British and French had an appeasement policy towards the Nazis until they attacked Poland. The main issue was expansionist imperialism.
Seeing the horrors of the holocaust definitely led to some self reflection on what it means to be human among European white supremacists but that was after the fact.
This is why it’s naive to think the war had any chance at ending Nazism. To end Nazism one has to end white supremacy and that’s a lot easier said than done.