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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on September 06, 2019, 05:46:48 pm
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ICE Announces the Arrest of War Criminals and Persecutors: an Institutional Look Back
By Dan Cadman on September 6, 2019
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a press release announcing the arrest of 39 aliens who, it alleges, managed to make their way into the United States despite backgrounds in their home countries as war criminals, human rights abusers, and persecutors.
That such a thing should occur is not a surprise, and is no new phenomenon. The Justice Department's Nazi hunters — the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) — was created after Congress became irate that the then-extant Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) failed to do an adequate job of weeding out former concentration camp guards and others in the decades after World War II.
Of course, there is irony in that fact that some very famous cogs in the Nazi machine (e.g. Wernher von Braun, father of the German V-2 rocket produced by slave labor at Peenemünde, and also father of our own NASA program) were brought to the United States under the auspices of the federal government. In fact there was a race between the Western allies and the Soviet Union to sweep up many of the most prominent scientists who had served the Third Reich and "import" them for their knowledge. But I digress.
https://cis.org/Cadman/ICE-Announces-Arrest-War-Criminals-and-Persecutors-Institutional-Look-Back
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Von Braun had value. Sadistic camp guards did not.