Keith Ellison's False Analogy About WW 2 Jews

Keith Ellison (D-MN) is speaking out this week in support of the DACA dreamers. In making his case that the US should let everybody in and leave the illegal aliens in peace, he brings up the analogy of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/351415-ellison-compares-harboring-illegal-immigrants-to-sheltering-jews

This is a false analogy. It is true (and regrettable) that the US turned back the ship St Louis, which was full of European Jews fleeing Europe. Most eventually died during the war when Germany occupied the European countries they settled in when the ship returned to Europe. Certainly, we should have accepted them

First and foremost, however, European Jews were not fleeing poverty. They were fleeing for their lives. Nor were they fleeing civil wars as is the case with Syrians and Iraqis. As to that point, the US was not concerned that some of the European Jews might be terrorists who could not be vetted. Jews were not involved in terror attacks in Germany or anywhere else in Europe.

Moreover, who is Ellison to voice his concern over European Jews? Many consider Ellison an anti-semite due to some of his  associations with certain questionable organizations.

And where is Ellison's concern for religious groups that are fleeing for their lives as we speak? I am talking about the Christians in Syria and Iraq being hunted down by ISIS. What about the Coptic Christians of Egypt, whose churches are being burned and bombed? Their situation is comparable to European Jews of the 1930s and 40s. Ellison is silent, perhaps, because the persecutors are Muslim.

Ellison is highly disingenuous when he brings up European Jews to make the argument we should support DACA and the millions of people who have come illegally to the US from Mexico and Central America. What exactly we should do with them is another story.

I realize there is an argument in favor of giving a break to the so-called Dreamers. Someone who actually was brought to this country as a toddler by their parents and knows no other country should be able to regularize their status. Each case should be carefully examined, however. What to do with their parents is another problem to be dealt with.

However, these are not people fleeing deadly persecution as were the Jews. In reality I doubt Ellison cares about Jews and Christians. He asks his audience what they would do if the European Jews of 1941 showed up on our doorstep. In my opinion, he would  have turned them away. Naturally, he would not give his true reason; he would probably talk about the need for a sovereign country to control its own borders. Except Ellison doesn't believe in that.