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Biden compares asylum seekers at US border to Jews escaping Nazi Germany

(JNS) - In a speech on border security and enforcement Thursday, President Joe Biden compared asylum seekers at America's southern border to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. The remark came in response to a question about whether Biden viewed migration as a human right.

"Well I think it is a human right if your family is being persecuted," Biden said. "I thought it was a human right for, you know, Jews in Germany to be able to go [...] escape and get help where they could."

Vice President Kamala Harris nodded in agreement with the president's remarks.

Biden went on to say that Americans have basic f...

 

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