"This is how authoritarian regimes do it. They create these kind of fake ideas that there's an enemy out there and it could be sitting next to you at one of these tables. So just somebody sitting at your table that you don't like might be one of those enemies, Pritzker said. So let's round them up, let's make sure they are the subjects of the laws that we're passing, because we don't like who they are. That is what authoritarian regimes do."
"I can tell you, sitting next to Holocaust survivors, that what they will say in this moment is This is what happened. This is what happened people's rights started getting taken away. People got accused of being immigrants' this is before the Holocaust really took place, he said. Pritzker continued: People were accused of being immigrants, and then laws were passed to limit immigrants. And then people who weren't actually immigrants were called immigrants, and then it was othering' people, and that led to a lot worse things."
A state governor compared U.S. immigration enforcement by ICE and Border Patrol to tactics used in Nazi Germany, asserting that manufacturing an enemy and 'othering' neighbors enables laws that strip rights and escalate repression. The comparison was offered during an hour-long interview at a Chicago Economic Club event and was defended by citing involvement in building a Holocaust museum and conversations with survivors who warned rights were eroded before mass atrocities. Critics pushed back on factual differences, noting the 1935 Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of citizenship and that there are no death camps or cattle-train deportations in the United States.
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