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National Guard memo is ‘reminiscent of what led up to World War II,’ a top House Democrat says
The Washington Post's PowerPost ^ | February 17, 2017 | Mike DeBonis

Posted on 02/17/2017 6:42:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus said Friday that reports that the Trump administration had considered deploying tens of thousands of National Guard troops to apprehend undocumented immigrants were “outrageous” and “very reminiscent of what led up to World War II.”

Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) made the statement in an interview for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program shortly after the Associated Press broke news of the draft Department of Homeland Security memo.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the memo was “not a White House document” and that “there is no effort at all to round up, to utilize the National Guard to round up illegal immigrants.”

But Crowley said “seeing these kind of actions . . . even being talked about” was alarming.

“Using the National Guard, the Army, to come into our communities, to police our communities, to disrupt and to gather people up for the purpose of deporting them, is a very, very scary thing,” he said. “It’s not a country that I’m familiar with called the United States. It’s not how we conduct ourselves. We see that happen in other countries that aren’t as free and aren’t as open as we are to welcoming immigrants. We welcome immigrants. We want the best, the brightest and the bravest. . . . And now they’re under fear that armed [men], you know, with M-16 rifles, come to your door and break it down and leave your children who are American citizens there but take you and deport you.”

Pressed on the comparison to the run-up to World War II — a reference that could easily be interpreted as a reference to Nazi Germany — Crowley backed off only slightly....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: New York; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: aliens; army; democrats; deportation; fakenews; fool; illegals; josephcrowley; nationalguard; trump
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1 posted on 02/17/2017 6:42:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I remember we won WW2 so what’s his problem? Oh yeah, libs side with the enemy. STFU asshole.


2 posted on 02/17/2017 6:45:20 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a Maroon


3 posted on 02/17/2017 6:45:53 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey deBonehead...ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS....STOP LYING


4 posted on 02/17/2017 6:46:50 PM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: max americana

“But Crowley said “seeing these kind of actions . . . even being talked about” was alarming.”

Because YOU are talking about them?

And who is the enemy? The Democrats/NAZIS?


5 posted on 02/17/2017 6:50:54 PM PST by Castigar
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To: max americana
Oh there is a war coming alright. A civil war. All you Lib's want war. Problem is, all of us on the other side possess the weapons and the skills to employ them.
6 posted on 02/17/2017 6:51:17 PM PST by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hahahaha!


7 posted on 02/17/2017 6:52:33 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All I can say is...where’s Joe Swing when ya need him?


8 posted on 02/17/2017 6:52:51 PM PST by Regulator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is playing 4 dimensional chess with these fools.


9 posted on 02/17/2017 6:53:10 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Newbomb Turk

The rule of law constrains us.A time may come when that no longer applies.


10 posted on 02/17/2017 6:55:31 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hitler was just deporting illegal aliens from Germany? Who knew?


11 posted on 02/17/2017 6:57:47 PM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another extremely stupid congressman.

“Hank Johnson” stupid that is.


12 posted on 02/17/2017 6:58:12 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

exactly. We can wipe out these pukes in an instant.

I’ll say it for the 1000th time on FR: we cannot co-exist with liberals. If we want to save America, one of us has got to “go”. I prefer it be the left.


13 posted on 02/17/2017 6:58:50 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) is a drama queen and a complete idiot.


14 posted on 02/17/2017 6:58:51 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seig Heil...


15 posted on 02/17/2017 7:00:40 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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And now they’re under fear that armed [men], you know, with M-16 rifles, come to your door and break it down

Dear Joseph Crowley:


16 posted on 02/17/2017 7:01:12 PM PST by SSS Two
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The fact that you’re a U.S. rep and you’re stupid enough to fall for a fake document is a bigger danger to our country, Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.).

Why don’t you allocate a grant to brain transplant research and then offer yourself up as a guinea pig.


17 posted on 02/17/2017 7:02:45 PM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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Knowing DC, there is probably also a draft memo, written by a committee of GS Minus 17s, that all immigrants from SWA should be required to eat a bagel with a pork chop on it with their left hand, and that would smoke out the Terrs.

Everyone writes memos

I saw a memo during ‘71 that we should use small air delivered / air burst nucs to make a 10 mile wide no-mans-land from from the SW corner of North Vietnam running NW through Thailand, Laos, into Burma to prevent PAVN resupply to COSVN / VC / PAVN units in South. Puffs would then patrol the open area, killing anything that moved!

Wasn’t even TS.

Didn’t go anywhere..... darn it.


18 posted on 02/17/2017 7:02:53 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These guys are crazy.


19 posted on 02/17/2017 7:02:55 PM PST by Brilliant
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The Congressman is also ignorant of history... FDR, a Democrat, allowed the round up and internment of Japanese Americans during WW-II. However the National Guard story is totally fake news


20 posted on 02/17/2017 7:05:31 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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