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Leftists Claim Wounded Vet Working For ICE Has Nazi Tattoo. Then ICE Blisters Them.

Hank Berrien

On Sunday, social media was abuzz with a report that an employee of ICE, Justin Gaertner, a retired Marine corporal who had his legs blown off In Afghanistan, sported a Nazi tattoo on his left elbow. That fit with the Left’s characterization of ICE employees working on immigration as Nazis; the story was even given additional life in an article for the leftist publication The New Yorker.

One problem: the claim was false. And on Monday, ICE released a blistering statement attacking those who had given the story credibility:

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