N.Y. pols push Rex for deport of accused Nazi

A BIPARTISAN GROUP of New York members of Congress are urging Secretary of State Tillerson to help deport an accused Nazi guard living in Queens.

A letter released Wednesday signed by 21 members of the state’s House delegation asked Tillerson to banish Jakiw Palij, 92, who U.S. officials said worked as a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp and Trawniki SS training camp in German-occupied Poland.

“Mr. Palij supported the Nazi regime during the Holocaust,” the letter to Tillerson reads. “There is abundant evidence of crimes committed at Trawniki.”

The case to toss Palij has floundered for years.

Upon a request by the Department of Justice, a federal judge in 2004 stripped his U.S. citizenship, noting he lied on his paperwork. Palij claimed he was a farmer during World War II, according to the 1949 filing. An immigration judge then ruled he should be sent to Germany, Poland or Ukraine. But those countries have rejected him.

“We are deeply concerned that the deportation of Mr. Palij is stalled,” the letter states. “Without very high-level involvement by your office and others in the administration, it appears likely that countries will not be willing to accept him.”