Early this morning, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) implemented a 2004 order of deportation to the Federal Republic of Germany of Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi SS labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York.
President Trump commends his Administration’s comprehensive actions, especially ICE’s actions, in removing this war criminal from United States soil. Despite a court ordering his deportation in 2004, past administrations were unsuccessful in removing Palij. To protect the promise of freedom for Holocaust survivors and their families, President Trump prioritized the removal of Palij. Through extensive negotiations, President Trump and his team secured Palij’s deportation to Germany and advanced the United States’ collaborative efforts with a key European ally.
Palij had lied about being a Nazi and remained in the United States for decades. Palij’s removal sends a strong message: The United States will not tolerate those who facilitated Nazi crimes and other human rights violations, and they will not find a safe haven on American soil.
Palij, who was born in what was then Poland and is now Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1949 and became a United States citizen in 1957. During the United States immigration and naturalization process, he concealed his Nazi service and his participation in human rights abuses. Palij lied to United States immigration officials, saying that he had spent World War II working on a farm and in a factory.
In 2001, Palij admitted to officials at the Department of Justice that he trained in 1943 at the Nazi SS Training Camp in Trawniki, in German-occupied Poland. Court documents demonstrated that men who trained at the SS Training Camp in Trawniki participated in executing “Operation Reinhard,” a code name for the Third Reich’s plan to murder Jews in Poland. Palij also served as an armed guard at the adjacent Trawniki Labor Camp. On November 3, 1943, approximately 6,000 Jewish children, women, and men who were incarcerated at the adjacent Trawniki Labor Camp were shot to death in one of the single largest massacres of the Holocaust. By serving as an armed guard at the Trawniki Labor Camp and preventing the escape of Jewish prisoners during his Nazi service, Palij played an indispensable role in ensuring that the Trawniki Jewish victims met their horrific fate at the hands of the Nazis.
In August 2003, a federal judge revoked Palij’s United States citizenship based on his wartime activities, human rights abuses, and postwar immigration fraud. He was ordered deported in 2004, and his administrative appeal was denied in 2005.
The United States government has prioritized the identification, prosecution and deportation of Nazi war criminals since the 1970s. If you have information about foreign nationals or foreign nationals who naturalized to United States citizenship and are suspected of engaging in human rights abuses or war crimes, please call the ICE Homeland Security Investigations tip line at 866-DHS-2-ICE, or complete its online tip form. https://www.ice.gov/human-rights-violators-war-crimes-unit
So what about Soros? He was a nazi collaborator. Deport him too.
AH No, that one needs to die
You need to check timeline and ages. Soros was Jewish kid, taken in and proteted by a Nazi , but was only about 12 or 13 in those years. After the war, he worked for banking, and learned to manipulate funds and made a lot of money, dealing with money changing. I do not like him, and do not protect his actions, but I do not like to see false information to prove an argument. He deserves to be prosecuted for actions, almost bankrupted England years ago, but then again we have a lot of millionaires, and billionaires, who need to be investigate. And I am not talking about Donald Trump, since his assets increased in very transparent ways, and reported. Hedge Funds enriched, and too many who conned the computer systems.
Trumps father was a self made millionaire and Trump himself is a hard worker – soros is an a. hole
YES , and today, before the plane leave with the other POS
I’m wondering what Merkel will do with this creepy old germ. Kiss him perhaps.
According to the story the his joker was only a guard. – Plan “B” would be he would have been a prisoner himself. – But all that crap aside the snotball has to be pushing hundred years old. Like the cackling witch said. At this point what difference does it make? . . , Now if we spent all this effort and money on a mere guard how do they justify not allowing the extradition of Sore-Ass? He was a hell of a lot more then just a low level guard following orders. He was right up there with Adolph Eichman. — I don’t understand why the Israeli’s didn’t put the bag on him years ago. ,,,, Maybe he is being protected by our tax dollars.
Just another one for the believe it or not file.
I don’t think you read the article. Maybe you just skimmed over it. He was directly involved in the abuses. He killed people in the camp. The Nazi has lived here in complete freedom from prosecution and prison too long. Hopefully Soros will be thrown out in the current administration.
Good but it would have been better to have put him in front of a Fireing Squad and yes soros needs Fireing Squad Immediately
Hopefully Justice at last, shall see what Germany does now.
“President Trump deports……”
Let us all get back to earth, after a severe long spell of the immigration law prohibiting Nazis and nationals of Nazi occupied countries enlisted and having served the Nazi death camps as guards and other Nazi-directed personnel, a law on the books of the U.S. government was enacted after WW2, prohibiting immigration of such Nazis and Nazi-enlisted personnel.
President Trump is the first U.S. President to regard the war crime, the law against Nazi Death Camp personnel as enlisted guards, etc. in a long time. Heretofore, U.S. Presidents, post WW2, had been overlooking enforcement of that law. Good for Trump, but the Nazi was able to live as a free man from the date he came in to his deportation date.
I do not care how long ago it was the family’s need to see justice done. He will die knowing he did not escape his crimes against humanity
so what about GEORGE SOROS??
inquiring MINDS WHAT TO KNOW.
if you are sending this 95 year old man back how about ARRESTING THAT NAZI THUG SOROS BACK AS WELL.