I am a 94-year-old Jewish American who still has fire left in the belly. I enlisted and served for three and a half years in the United States Marine Corps. My father was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and my mother was born in a small village near Moscow. Persecuted by pogroms, they emigrated to Canada and then the United States. Many of my father’s family perished under the Nazi regime.

When I see, hear and read about the immigrant policy under the current presidential administration, it is — without a doubt — a carbon copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” from the 1930s and ’40s in Nazi Germany. However, the present seizing of immigrants and racially profiled citizens has become worse than the Gestapo “rounding up” the Jews. The systematic, dehumanizing process employed by this administration far surpasses Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

My hope and wish is that the American people will wake up, see through this sham, and take appropriate action before we soon become a fascist state and lose our precious democracy. God bless America.

Ed Fraktman
Scarborough