GOP lawmaker compares immigration to famous WWII offensive: 'We have D-Day every month'

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07 March 2019

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen answered questions (poorly) in front of the House Immigration and Homeland Security Committee Wednesday. Democratic representatives asked Nielsen questions about family separation policies and what is being done to rectify some of the damage done to the families terrorized by our country’s current immigration and national security policies. Republican representatives did a lot of pontificating about the need for a wall to stop drugs and keep undocumented immigrants from stealing all of our cheese … or something.

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins from Louisiana stepped up during the hearing as a caricature of a bad guy.

Perhaps the most famous invasion in the history of the world D-Day. 73,000 American troops landed in the D-Day invasion. We have 76,103 according to my numbers, apprehensions along our southern border last month. We have D-Day every month on our southern border. Just to put this in context for America. Yes, physical barriers work and technology works. The ability to respond and arrest, to process works. Of course none of us want to separate families.

Nobody wants to separate families but I guess if you are going to make a racist omelette you need to separate some families, amiright?

Rep. Higgins’ comparison here makes next to no sense. In this analogy, the asylum seekers trying to cross our southern border are here to liberate us from the yoke of a fascistic and murderous regime. Of course, what he’s really trying to do is connect the concept of a large military “invasion” with immigration. Rep. Higgins seems to have a preoccupation with the 1930s and 1940s. A little more than one year ago, he caught a lot of grief and had to apologize after using a gas chamber at the Auschwitz memorial to stage an anti-Muslim military policy position.

We as Congress we have to fix the laws and allow these law enforcement professionals to do their job. I know the men and women of border patrol, highly professional and patriotic in their mission to secure our border. I know firsthand from my experience as a cop.

Here’s the thing about Rep. Higgins’ “experience as a cop”: He had to resign as an Opelousas, Louisiana, police officer after being suspended for using “unnecessary force on a subject during the execution of a warrant and later gave false statements during an internal investigation.” But go ahead Mr. Higgins—embarrass yourself some more by creating the most convoluted argument that asylum seekers coming to our country are the same thing as the approximately 10,000 men killed during D-Day in World War II. You’re dumb, and don’t understand how history works. Watch the idiocy for yourself in the video below.