Trump, ICE Deport Last Known Nazi Living In US
8:23 AM 08/21/2018
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent

The Trump administration deported the last known living Nazi in the U.S. after more than a decade of efforts of trying to remove him, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Tuesday.

“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,” Sanders said.

ICE explained in a statement that the former Nazi guard was ” born in a part of Poland that is situated in present-day Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1957. He concealed his Nazi service by telling U.S. immigration officials that he had spent the war years working until 1944 on his father’s farm in his hometown, which was previously a part of Poland and is now in Ukraine, and then in a German factory.”

After Palij was discovered by U.S. authorities in the early 2000’s he was ordered deported by Ukraine, Poland, or Germany though all three countries refused to accept him for years, requiring him to be held in New York City.

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Inside Trump’s Order To Deport Last Living Nazi In US
10:53 AM 08/21/2018
Saagar Enjeti | White House Correspondent

President Donald Trump played an integral role in deporting former Nazi SS guard Jakiw Palij to Germany Tuesday after more than a decade of efforts to remove him from the U.S.

Trump ordered U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell to find a way to get Palij out of the U.S. even before he assumed his position in Berlin in April, an official familiar with the matter told The Daily Caller. The president’s interest in Palij’s case stems from the years of New York City tabloid coverage it has garnered over the years, a person familiar with the president’s thinking relayed.

Palij was ordered to be deported from the U.S. in 2004 but his case has been particularly vexing to U.S. authorities over the years because he was born in a part of Poland that is presently Ukrainian territory, and was never a German citizen. All three countries refused since 2004 to accept Palij.

Grenell, acting upon the order of the president, vigorously highlighted Palij’s case to German authorities with the new argument that it had a moral obligation to accept him because the former SS guard committed his crime for the German government at the time. The ambassador raised the issue in nearly every meeting he had with senior German leadership, an official familiar involved in the process noted.

“The new members of the German cabinet brought a new perspective on this case. It was difficult to achieve a successful legal process because this Nazi guard wasn’t a German citizen – but the German government accepted their moral obligation to allow his deportation,” Grenell told TheDC in a statement.

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Trump was particularly impressed with Grenell’s effort and called him Tuesday morning after an appearance on the Fox News Channel to congratulate him on his effort.


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