Queens, NY – Assemblyman Dov Hikind with 100 Students Protested Nazi

Queens, NY – Protestors took to the streets outside the home of an elderly man who's admitted to serving under the Nazis.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind brought over 100 students to the doorstep of a man who's admitted he guarded the Trawniki labor camp in Poland.

"He was involved in the murder of men, women and children!," Hikind said.

Their chants echoed through a quiet street in Jackson Heights, where Jakiw Palij lives with his ailing wife.

The crowd chanted, "Your neighbor is a Nazi!"

The federal government agrees, and won a deportation order against Palij. But no country will take him. And the government says it's likely the 85-year-old will spend the rest of his life in America.

"Let the Justice Department keep him in detention," Hikind said. "We keep people in detention all the time."

But government officials say that's unlikely. So this rally has become more of an annual symbol of outrage than anything else. It's held each year at this time, representing the anniversary of Kristallnacht. Neighbors seemed amazed by it all.

"I almost had a heart attack," a woman identified as "Harriet" said. "I couldn't believe it. A Nazi in Jackson Heights."

But others want him left alone.

"Would you want someone to come in front your house and saying get out?" a man named "Joe" said. [wcbstv]