Friday, January 06, 2023
Biden compares asylum-seeking migrants to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany
President Biden compared asylum-seeking immigrants to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, in off-the-cuff remarks after he delivered a speech on the status of the southern border.
When a reporter asked if he believes migration is a human right, the president Thursday was quick to compare the situation at the border to the Holocaust.
"Well, I think it is a human right if your family is being persecuted," Biden responded. "I thought it was a human right for, you know, Jews in Germany to be able to go — to get to escape and get help where they could."
Biden is set to visit the border Sunday for the first time during his presidency, which has seen the highest levels of southern border encounters in history. The president Thursday announced an expansion to a pandemic-era program that allows agents to turn away migrants from different countries who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexican border.
"My message is this," Biden said. "If you're trying to leave Cuba, Nicaragua or Haiti, you have a — and we — or have agreed to begin a journey to America, do not — do not just show up at the border. Stay where you are and apply legally from there."
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