Ex-Trump official ripped on immigration: 'Like anti-Jewish propaganda during Third Reich'

Chad Wolf, who was appointed by then-President Donald Trump as acting United States secretary of homeland security in 2019, was blasted by a C-SPAN viewer over the Republican Party's stance on immigration.

During Tuesday's episode of Washington Journal, a Democratic caller accused Republicans of "playing both sides of the immigration issue for decades."

"And you know, I think the Republican Party is pandering to its racist base, but maintaining a steady flow of cheap immigrant labor," the New Mexico caller named Chris said. "And the anti-immigrant propaganda is absolutely despicable. It sounds exactly like the anti-Jewish propaganda during the Third Reich."

"Now, I mean, I live 90 miles from the border, and, you know, we just don't see the kind of problems here in New Mexico that people claim elsewhere," he continued. "In fact, we need that immigrant labor."

After the call, Wolf defended the Republican Party.

"I disagree with the caller there," Wolf said. "I don't think the objective is to demonize or to scare anyone. The objective is actually to just enforce the law."

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"I talk about the United States being a very welcoming nation," he added. "There are legal ways in which to come into the country to contribute to work, then to leave and to do other things."

"But that's not what we're talking about here."

Watch the video below from C-SPAN.