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During the first three months of ICE’s 2018 fiscal year, the agency deported 56,710 people, 46 percent of
whom had not been convicted of a crime. This year, ICE expects to deport 209,000 people (PDF). It is
highly unlikely that Palij will be among them—even though Palij is a war criminal, the last Nazi war
criminal living in the United States.

Palij served as a guard during World War II at the Trawniki forced labor camp, which also trained those
participating in “Operation Reinhard,” a plan to exterminate every Jew in German-occupied Poland. He
entered the country in 1949 without divulging his past and was later awarded citizenship, of which he
was stripped by a federal judge in 2004 and ordered deported.

“During a single nightmarish day in November 1943, all of the more than 6,000 prisoners of the Nazi
camp that Jakiw Palij had guarded were systematically butchered,” Eli Rosenbaum, head of the Justice
Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), said after the ruling. “By helping to prevent the
escape of these prisoners, Palij played an indispensable role in ensuring that they met their tragic fate at
the hands of the Nazis.”

But Palij, now 94, remains a free man because no one else wants him, either. As Rosenbaum told The
Daily Beast in an email, “Unfortunately, the governments of Germany, Ukraine and Poland have declined
to admit Palij and no other nation has agreed to accept him.”

Palij lives quietly in Jackson Heights, Queens, on a leafy, tree-lined street less than 2 miles—four subway
stops on the 7 line—from Citi Field. There’s a taco place across the street from his red brick semi-
detached duplex, a bodega down the block, and a T-Mobile store on the corner.

“Who is this?” Palij grumbled in his still-thick accent when contacted by phone. Asked about the status
of his case, Palij snapped, “Forget it, forget it, forget it,” and hung up. No one answered the door during
a visit to his home.