The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum forcefully rejected remarks made by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after he drew a comparison between federal immigration enforcement in his state and the experience of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager whose diary became one of the most enduring testimonies of the Holocaust.

In a public statement posted on X, the museum said the analogy crossed a clear moral and historical line, emphasizing that the Holocaust was a state sponsored campaign of extermination that cannot be likened to present day political disputes or law enforcement actions.