New York Daily News

All N.Y.’s reps bid to boot Nazi

- Reuven Blau

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.

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