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This Nazi-era story shows why Trump won't fix a terrifying deportation mistake

JL;DR SUMMARY Fredric Brandfon draws parallels between Trump’s refusal to rectify a wrongful deportation and a 1942 incident in Vichy France involving Marie Reille, a non-Jew mistakenly deported to Auschwitz due to a bureaucratic oversight. 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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HolocaustTrump AdministrationDeportationJudiciaryVichy FranceIceKilmar Abrego GarciaMaurice PaponEl SalvadorAdministrative Error

Places mentioned

New Jersey, United States
"A practicing attorney in Los Angeles, Fredric Brandfon is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey"
Bordeaux, Gironde, France
"Reille went back to the offices of the Bordeaux prefecture where her hearing had been conducted"
El Salvador
"could not be deported to his home country of El Salvador because of threats to his life"

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