Jeff Sessions Insists America Isn't Like Nazi Germany by Describing the Exact Thing Nazis Did 

In fact, the Nazi government was extremely eager for Jews to leave Germany. It sent millions of Jews to other European territories under its control and drew up extensive plans for further mass deportations—most infamously with the proposed “Madagascar plan” to force Jews to resettle off the coast of Africa—before abandoning them and implementing its Final Solution of extermination in the death camps. The United States itself had an opportunity to rescue an estimated 20,000 Jewish refugees—all children— during the early years of the Nazi regime. That plan was scuttled by a nativist and anti-Semitic backlash.

Sessions went on to contradict claims made earlier that day by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristjen Nielsen, who emphatically insisted that the policy of separating children and parents was definitely not intended to be a deterrent to other immigrants.

“Are you considering this a deterrent?” Ingraham asked Sessions.

“Yes,” he answered.