President Donald Trump deserves the credit for ejecting the last known living World War II Nazi death camp guard out of the United States, a Democratic New York assemblyman said Wednesday, as other presidents didn't take the matter "seriously enough."
"You are talking about someone who participated in the final solution, someone who was involved in the murder of men, women, and children living in our community, living in America," Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents Brooklyn's district, told Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
Trump thanked Hikind through Twitter for his "very gracious remarks," and noted that "others worked on this for decades."
The former guard, 95-year-old Jakiw Palij is accused of lying to immigration officials when he came to the United States in 1949, and Hikind has been pushing to deport him for the past 14 years.
Hikind noted that his own mother was detained in the Auschwitz death camp in 1944 with other family members, and that his grandmother and other family members were sent directly to gas chambers.
However, Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush did not make Palij's deportation a priority, but Trump did, said Hikind, and political party affiliation did not come into play.
"As a Democrat, I say to my fellow Democrats, stop this nonsense," he said. "Stop making everything into a political thing. When the president does something huge, like getting rid of the last Nazi from Queens, New York, say thank you, Mr. President Ttrump, for doing an amazing thing. God bless the president."
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