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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called out a Thursday CNN segment for comparing the relocation of migrants to the Holocaust.
The governor reacted to filmmaker Ken Burns comments to CNN anchor John Berman that relocating some migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was reminiscent of Germany’s actions during the Holocaust. Burns recently co-directed a documentary about the U.S.’ role in the Holocaust. He compared DeSantis’ transportation of willing migrants to the Holocaust by claiming he is using human lives for political purposes.
“It’s the abstraction of human life. It’s basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine … and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody’s authoritarian game,” Burns said on CNN. “This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook, this is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis is to use human beings, to weaponize beings for a political purpose, it’s like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida, like the Walt Disney Company, he punishes them.”
DeSantis has pushed back against the accusations, confirming Friday that the migrants on two planes sent to Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday evening had boarded voluntarily.
