Guest Editorial: Are immigrants the new Jews in Trump’s America?

During World War II Adolph Hitler and his Nazi cohorts devised a number of very clever plans to achieve their goals, one of which seriously demonized Jewish people. A great deal of their strategies utilized lies, and most of the German people turned a blind eye to what was happening. The Jews were blamed for everything bad that occurred in Germany. Hindsight has 20-20 vision, or so they say. History records the loss of Germany’s war, and a lot of native Germans have regretted their decision to support what is called the Jewish Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Nazis systematically murdered over 6 million Jews and countless others; included among those were 250,000 gypsies (Roma), nearly two million Soviet prisoners of war; nearly two million Poles; over 250,000 people with disabilities, over 1,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses, hundreds of men accused of homosexuality, and other victims. Basically, the Holocaust was one of the most vicious and violent assaults on humanity in modern history. One of the chief strategies the Nazis used to influence people was to paint their enemies as sub-human. It was important to degrade them in the eyes of the rest of the German population in order to make them...