A Holocaust survivor attended a public hearing in Sacramento with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan and Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones. Watch as this brave man tells both men directly to their faces that “History is not on your side!”
The man’s full remarks can be seen below, but the meeting was full to capacity with people protesting the recent immigration actions taken by the Trump administration, ICE and the local sheriff. There was a large overflow crowd outside:
For what it’s worth, Sheriff Scott Jones ran for Congress in 2016, narrowly losing to Democrat Ami Bera.
This is how we fight back, people. We show up at every single meeting in this country, no matter how big or how small. From immigration to health care to women’s rights, LGBT rights, climate change, income inequality and beyond. We show up and we will win, one meeting, one office at a time.
Full remarks of the Holocaust survivor:
Thank you for the forum that you have here tonight.
When I was a little boy in Poland, for no other reason but for being Jewish, I was hauled off by the Nazis. And for no other reason I was picked up and separated from my family, who was exterminated in Auschwitz. And I am a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.
I spent five and a half years in concentration camps, for one reason and one reason only—because we picked on people, and you as the sheriff, who we elected as sheriff of this county—we did not elect you for sheriff of Washington, D.C. It’s about time you side with the people here. And when this gentleman [acting ICE Director Thomas Homan] stands up there and says he doesn’t go after people, he should read today’s Bee. Because in today’s Bee, the Supreme Court Justice of California objected to ICE coming in and taking people away from the courts. Don’t tell me that this is a lie.
You stand up here Mr. Jones. Don’t forget—history is not on your side.