Immigration and Customs Enforcement

‘Alligator Auschwitz’? Critics’ nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility renews debate over Holocaust comparisons

Nazi comparisons surge in response to aggressive immigrant detention and enforcement policies, as do rebukes that such language trivializes the Holocaust.

Ideas

‘Resounding no’ to ‘strongly support’: JTA readers weigh in on Trump’s bid to deport Mahmoud Khalil

Where one side sees a violation of the Constitution, the other sees welcome action to battle campus antisemitism.

Hundreds of people attended a protest outside of an ICE facility in Elizabeth, N.J. on Sunday, June 30, organized by a new Jewish group called Never Again Action. (Screenshot from Facebook)

36 Jewish protesters arrested at ICE detention center in New Jersey accept plea deal

The demonstrators, who blocked the access road to the facility, were charged with disturbing the peace and ordered to pay $133 in fines.

United States

Jewish marchers protesting ICE disrupt Boston’s rush hour

United States

Rabbi couple arrested for blocking ICE office in Philadelphia

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a briefing in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2019. She has sparked a debate about the use of the term "concentration camps." (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

United States

US Holocaust Museum rejects all ‘analogies between the Holocaust and other events’

Ideas

US immigration policies are straight out of the Bible — the story of Sodom

Editor's Column

Holocaust comparisons are muddying the immigration debate

Politics

Former CIA head compares US immigration policies to Nazi Germany

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