CREATORS
July 15, 2025
More than
eighty-five years ago, Winston Churchill was a lonely figure on the British
home front, sounding the alarm about a growing menace in Europe -- the Nazis.
In October 1938 he gave a speech simulcast in England and the United States.
The Defense of Freedom and Peace, also known as The Lights are Going Out
speech, was an oratorical gem and made the case for standing up to Nazism.
One passage condemns the German
authorities for promoting a culture “where children denounce their parents to
the police, where a business man or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by
telling tales about his private opinions -- such a state of society cannot long
endure.”
Adolph Hitler and the Nazis blamed
the jews for Germany’s failure after World War I. President Donald Trump has
focused his extremism on immigrants. In 2023, Trump argued at least four times
that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States. According to
the Harvard Political Review, Hitler, in his book, Mein Kampf, claimed that
“All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative
race died out from blood poisoning.”
During Trump’s first term, then
Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to take time to distinguish the Trump
administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at
the border from the ignominious conduct of the Nazis.
When asked by Fox News host Laura
Ingraham about comparisons between the immigrant detention facilities and Nazi
concentration camps all Sessions could muster was, “Well, it’s a real exaggeration,
of course. In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the
country.” That is not historically accurate -- the Nazis murdered Jews in concentration
camps in German and throughout various countries of Europe.
Now, Trump has his own concentration
camp. According to NPR, Trump recently toured a tent and trailer facility in
the Everglades with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis. The facility is being used to detain undocumented immigrants.
A
proud Florida Republican Party launched merchandise
and gave the camp the nickname, “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state made the
adopted name official.
According to the American Friends
Service Committee website, the Trump administration is attacking immigration on
various levels.
The Trump administration wiped the
dust off The Alien Enemies Act. The Act was previously used during World War II
to force people of Japanese, German and Italian ancestry into internment camps.
Trump is trying to use the Act to
immediately deport people without due process and in violation of their human
and constitutional rights. Although the use of this law continues to face legal
challenges, the administration has already sent hundreds of people to El
Salvador and other places outside the U.S., where they are now incarcerated in
deplorable conditions.
The Trump administration has
canceled temporary legal status for over a million immigrants in the U.S.,
placing them at risk for deportation. The administration has revoked the visas
of international students in dozens of states. Many students with visas -- and
even green cards -- have been arrested, detained, and either deported or
threatened with deportation because of their political speech.
As part of a new nationwide
registry, immigrants as young as 14 are now being forced to turn over personal
data and fingerprints to the federal government or risk being jailed
indefinitely. People who aren’t citizens are now required to carry proof of
their registration at all times.
And yes, U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement has an online tip form and phone number for anonymously
reporting suspected immigration violations and criminal activity. A tip line
that provides a platform for a competitor to use the authority of the United
States of America to eliminate a rival. Are the lights going out in America?
(Matthew T. Mangino is of counsel with Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly & George
P.C. His book The Executioner’s Toll, 2010 was released by McFarland
Publishing. You can reach him at www.mattmangino.com
and follow him on Twitter @MatthewTMangino)
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