Ken Burns appeared on CNN's "New Day" on Thursday to promote his new PBS Documentary, "The US and the Holocaust," and told host John Berman that Ron DeSantis moving illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard is equivalent to the actions of Nazis in Germany and the murder of 6 million Jews across Europe during Holocaust.
"This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook, this is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis, is to use human beings, to weaponize human beings for a political purpose," Burns said, according to the New York Post.
When President Joe Biden took office, he dramatically loosened restrictions along the southern border. This created a humanitarian crisis that has lead to historic drug and human trafficking. Biden's border crisis has seen a record-high number of illegal immigrants pouring into the United States with 1,659,206 illegal immigrants crossing in 2021 and there have already been more than two million encounters in the 2022 fiscal year.
Burns agreed with host Berman as he said that there are "some of the same themes" between DeSantis giving travel amenities to illegal immigrants as the Holocaust, which saw the Nazi's capture and trap Jews in concentration camps and then mercilessly torture, experiment on, and slaughter them among other human atrocities.
