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Eric Adams said he'd 'collaborate' on immigration enforcement — so did Vichy France during WWII

JL;DR SUMMARY Robert Zaretsky draws a provocative parallel between New York City Mayor Eric Adams' collaboration with former Trump administration officials on immigration enforcement and the collaborationist regime of Vichy France during World War II. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Eric AdamsWwiiImmigrationVichy FranceCollaborationHistorical MemoryMoral CourageFrench HistoryTom HomanMarshal Pétain

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Last week, Mayor Eric Adams appeared on Fox & Friends, alongside the Trump administrations border czar Tom Homan, to discuss their plans to work together on immigration enforcement."
Houston, Texas, United States
"A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward."
Vichy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
"This year marks the 85th anniversary of the French State, better known as Vichy thanks to the spa town where it set up shop in 1940 following the defeat and partial occupation by Nazi Germany."
Guantanamo Bay, Guantánamo, Cuba
"Among the policies pursued by the administration is the arrest and deportation of undocumented immigrants to detention centers overwhelmingly owned and run by private prison corporations as well as the camp at Guantanamo Bay built after 9/11, described by several experts, including Michael Ratner, the director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, as a concentration camp."

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