The Real News Network has the interview Jewish Activists of ‘Never Again’ Action Oppose Immigrant Detention Centers.

Molly Amster of Jews United for Justice explains why the concentration camp analogy is more than just rhetoric when it comes to Trump’s detention camps and policies.

This is a real eye opener. I went through some of the educational experiences that Molly Amster describes. I took the same lessons from those experiences. Of my four grandparents, only one, George Greenberg, was actually born in the USA. The other three were immigrants. Ida (Baker) Greenberg came here as a baby. My other two grandparents, Louis Kaplan and Pauline (Sokolov) Kaplan came as teenagers.

As I have been thinking of this immigration situation unfolding, an image came to mind. This was an image of a sinking ship, maybe the Titanic. There were all these people desperately trying to flee that sinking ship. Imagine if they had been confronted by people who wanted to see their papers before they could get on rescue boats. If they didn’t have the papers, imagine the “rescuers” telling them they had to go back to where they came from, the sinking ship.

Now think of the humane reaction to this sinking ship scenario. You strain to save everyone you can. You stretch your resources as far as they will go, and then stretch them some more. You don’t say, “Well I didn’t run their ship into an iceberg, why I should I be made to pay for their folly?”

This is a test for our country and how we react. We are not looking very good. That’s not taking into account that our country did really run their ship into an iceberg, so to speak.