The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation

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In wartime Berlin, a young gay Jewish man put on a fascist youth uniform and walked into a deportation center to try to save the man he loved. Gad Beck was barely out of his teens when his boyfriend, Manfred Lewin, was seized along with his family. Beck borrowed a uniform, marched in, and told the officials he needed Manfred released for a construction job. Astonishingly, it worked. They handed Manfred over. But once they were outside, Manfred would not run. He told Beck he could not abandon his family to save himself, and he turned around and walked back in. Beck never saw him again. Manfred and his family were murdered at Auschwitz. Beck survived the war, became a teacher in postwar Berlin, and lived to 88 - by then the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.