‘East Berlin in the 1950s’: Democrats Rage at Trump’s Immigrant Checkpoint in D.C.

For Republicans, this is what Trump was elected to do. For Democrats, Trump has “turned Washington, D.C., into North Korea.”

Jared Huffman
Congressman Jared Huffman speaks at Balletto Vineyards in Santa Rosa, California. Jeff Chiu/AP

In President Donald Trump’s latest flex of authority, federal and local officers set up a checkpoint Wednesday night on a popular street in Washington, D.C., seemingly in an attempt to find and arrest undocumented immigrants.

For Republicans, it was exactly the sort of action voters elected Trump to take. For Democrats, the scene conjured images of a very different capital city.

“The capital of the United States of America should not feel like East Berlin in the 1950s,” Rep. Jared Huffman told NOTUS.