US deports former Nazi guard, 95

Trump had urged expulsion of Palij, who lied about his wartime past

BERLIN - A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived quietly in New York for decades was carried out of his home on a stretcher by federal agents and flown to Germany on Tuesday in what could prove to be the last US deportation of a World War II-era war crimes suspect.

Jakiw Palij's expulsion, at President Donald Trump's urging, came 25 years after investigators first accused him of lying about his wartime past to get into the United States. But it was largely symbolic because officials in Germany have repeatedly said there is insufficient evidence to prosecute him.