All N.Y.’s reps bid to boot Nazi
IN A RARE display of bipartisan unity, New York’s entire congressional delegation is pressing Secretary of State Tillerson to banish a former Nazi concentration camp guard who is living in Queens.
Jakiw Palij, 94, should be deported from the U.S., urges a letter signed by New York’s 29-member delegation — 18 Democrats and nine Republicans in the House and two Democrats in the Senate.
“Removing Mr. Palij from American soil will send a message not only to the citizens of New York, but to the entire world,” the letter to Tillerson says.
Palij was a guard at the Trawniki concentration and SS training camp in German-occupied Poland. In 2004, a federal judge yanked Palij’s U.S. citizenship after the Department of Justice made the request.
An immigration judge ruled he should be shipped to Germany, Poland or Ukraine. But those countries have refused to accept him.