In California, hundreds of protesters confronted the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday as he appeared at a town hall meeting in Sacramento. ICE Director Thomas Homan was invited to the forum by Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, a Trump supporter who backs cooperation between police and ICE agents. Among those protesting was Bernard Marks, an 87-year-old Auschwitz Holocaust survivor who compared ICE’s actions to Nazis.
Bernard Marks: “When I was a little boy in Poland, for no other reason but for being Jewish, I was hauled off by the Nazis. And for no other reason, I was picked up and separated from my family, who was exterminated in Auschwitz. And I am a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. … You stand up here, Mr. Jones. Don’t forget. History is not on your side.”
One man was escorted out of the town hall after protesting a statement by Director Homan that ICE agents don’t target immigrants at churches and schools.