Angela's America's Ethnic History Blog

Jakiw Palij is the last Nazi War Criminal in America and he isn't being deported, even if he was going to be deported it isn't like any other country wants to take him either. ICE has deported a total of 56,710 people in their 2018 fiscal year so far, 46% of those deported have not even been convicted of a crime, yet Palij is still in the US. "Palij served as a guard during World War II at the Trawniki forced labor camp, which also trained those participating in “ Operation Reinhard ,” a plan to exterminate every Jew in German-occupied Poland. He entered the country in 1949 without divulging his past and was later awarded citizenship, of which he was stripped by a federal judge in 2004 and ordered deported." Palij played a major role in making sure 6,000 prisoners faced their death at the hands of the Nazi's one night as they planned an escape but Palij helped in the prevention of their escape which lead to them being systemically butchered. Palij no...

In class today we were discussing Elián Gonzalez, I had never heard of his name prior to class. I learned that he was born in 1993 in Cuba his parents were divorced and in 1999 his mother brought him when she escaped Cuba and the Castro regime. Unfortunately, his mother passed away on the boat they were on trying to flee Cuba, Florida fishermen found 5-year-old Elián floating on an inner tube. His family members wanted him to stay in the US but his father who was back in Cuba and had parental rights wanted his son back with him in Cuba and he was sent back by the Clinton administration in 2000. The article I found was published towards the middle of last year going into detail about specifically happened to Elián when he was younger. It gave information on his background story and how he is using his publicity from what happened to him when he was 5 to speak up during the Cuban Revolution. Elián's case is very well known, it took two years for the US and Cuba to decide whether he...

The DACA discussion has been continuing as there has been a discussion in creating a short-term deal that Trump has appeared to be open to. There have been discussions to create a simpler deal that will allow the Trump administration to be able to start building the wall they so desperately have been wanting to make. By March 23, 2018, there needs to be a new spending bill which means there will be discussions of how to go about DACA. "The outlines of the deal Trump is now willing to explore are much narrower, said the officials familiar with the offer: a two-or-three year extension of the DACA program, which now protects about 690,000 immigrants, coupled with an unspecified amount of border wall funding-hewing to a framework that some GOP moderates explored in the aftermath of February's failed Senate votes. A three-year DACA extension could essentially remove immigration from the congressional agenda until after the 2020 presidential election by removing the threat of deport...