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Democratic Lawmaker Declares ICE Arrests Being Compared to the Gestapo Is 'Appropriate': 'That's Exactly What It Was Like'

A Democratic legislator has claimed that the comparisons between the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) and the Gestapo, the secret police body of Nazi Germany, are accurate.
St. Cloud Times

Gov. Tim Walz calls ICE a ‘modern-day Gestapo.’ Agency calls comparison ‘sickening’

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz compared ICE agents under Trump's immigration crackdown to the Gestapo. The Department of Homeland Security called Walz's comments "sickening" and linked similar rhetoric ...
The Conversation

Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky

Daniel H. Magilow received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (although DOGE cancelled the grant in April 2025). He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, ...