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Trump says mass deportations will ease the housing crisis. We've seen that before — under the Nazis in France

JL;DR SUMMARY Nina Bernstein explores the parallels between Donald Trump's proposed mass deportation policies as a solution to housing shortages and a similar approach taken in Nazi-occupied Paris during the 1940s. 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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TrumpImmigrationNazi OccupationScapegoatingImmigration PolicyVichy FranceHousing CrisisHistorical ParallelsMass DeportationJewish Apartments

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Paris, France
"And it is exactly what unfolded in Paris between 1940 and 1944, as the Vichy regime redistributed vacated Jewish apartments to non-Jews."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"And what kind of fee do you suppose realtors could claim for the inside scoop on the next Brooklyn raid?"

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