Actor Alyssa Milano posted a current photo of Vice President Mike Pence touring a migrant detention center below an historical image of Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler touring a Nazi prisoner of war camp on Saturday.

Milano didn't provide any additional comment with the images other than writing, 'Photo by @RachelMckibbens.'

The comparison was actually first posted by reddit user famous0504, though not in black and white, approximately three hours before Rachel McKibbens' initial post of the two images, juxtaposed, on Facebook, according to her own tweet.

With the two photos appearing similar in terms of composition, many took the tweet to be a comparison between Pence and the Nazi leader, much in line with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comparisons between the detention centers and Nazi labor camps.

Pence called such comparisons 'slander against Customs and Border Protection' on Friday, saying: 'The Nazis killed people. Our Customs and Border Protection as you heard today are saving lives every day.'

Others' reactions to the post were split, with some decrying detention center conditions and applauding while Milano while others pointed out Jewish community outrage over Holocaust comparisons and the fact that Nazi POW camps housed enemy combatants.

Actor Alyssa Milano posted a current photo of Vice President Mike Pence touring a migrant detention center below an historical image of Holocaust architect Heinrich Himmler touring a Nazi prisoner of war camp on Saturday. Reactions were split, as some applauded Milano's post calling out bad conditions at detention centers while other noted POW camps are for enemies and the people in the migrant detention facilities can presumably leave the centers at any time if they leave the US while they await processing of their asylum claims

With the two photos appearing similar in terms of composition, many took the tweet to be a comparison between Pence and the Nazi leader, much in line with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comparisons between the detention centers and Nazi labor camps

Both of the photos were slightly altered in order to make the comparison more concrete.

The historic photo of Himmler at the POW camp was flipped horizontally and the current photo of Pence was converted to black and white, and cropped in.

Critics of Milano's post called her a hypocrite whose only aim was to provoke argument.

Both of the photos were slightly altered in order to make the comparison more concrete. The historic photo of Himmler at the POW camp (shown) was flipped horizontally

The current photo of Pence (shown) was converted to black and white, and cropped in.

Twitter user @batiulusjune wrote: 'Have you opened the doors to your home to house some of these people? Have you let homeless set up tent on your property? I didn’t think so. Just starting fires whenever possible and contributing nothing.'

Others, like Charles Bellows from Texas, noted that some level care has been provided to migrants in detention centers.

Bellows tweeted: 'The difference being the people in the lower photo will be fed, given, medical care, allowed to return home after a hearing in front of a judge. Other than that, totally the same.'

Critics of Milano's post called her a hypocrite whose only aim was to provoke argument

Others, like Charles Bellows from Texas, noted that some level care has been provided to migrants in detention centers

VP Mike Pence fights back against comparisons of detention facilities on the border to concentration camps, calling it a "slander against Customs and Border Protection."



"The Nazis killed people. Our Customs and Border Protection as you heard today are saving lives every day." pic.twitter.com/IZa1Bp4Bos — CNN (@CNN) July 13, 2019

Chris Manning, who ran for US Congress in 2018 and lost but still uses a Twitter handle that implies he is currently seeking office, noted that POW camps housed members of the military, not the Jewish people who were so extensively victimized under Nazi German rule. In reply to Manning, a person identified as Samuel B. Roberts wrote: 'What I got is that immigrants are treated like prisoners not part of an army'

Chris Manning, who ran for US Congress in 2018 and lost but still uses a Twitter handle that implies he is currently seeking office, noted that POW camps housed members of the military, not the Jewish people who were so extensively victimized under Nazi German rule.

Manning tweeted from an account with username @Manning4USCongress: 'So you're trying to say the immigrants are an army? Because that photo is a picture of POW's held by the Germans not Jews held in the concentration camps.'

In reply to Manning, a person identified as Samuel B. Roberts wrote: 'What I got is that immigrants are treated like prisoners not part of an army.'

The fact that the top photo showed a POW camp rather than a concentration camp was also treated as of no consequence to some who lambasted Milano's intelligence.

The fact that the top photo showed a POW camp rather than a concentration camp was also treated as of no consequence to some who lambasted Milano's intelligence. Fox News contributor David Webb tweeted calling it an 'idiotic analogy.' A Twitter user identified as Dennis Howard replied to Webb with a photo of what appeared to be a Japanese internment camp in the US, writing: 'It’s the conditions these ASYLUM SEEKERS (which is legal. It’s legal to flee their conditions and seek a better life in our country.) are being kept in'

Fox News contributor David Webb tweeted: 'You’re an idiot @Alyssa_Milano. How many Jews walked hundreds of miles to break into a concentration camp?' He doubled down in a subsequent tweet calling it an 'idiotic analogy.'

Not everyone was offended by Milano's post, however.

A Twitter user identified as Dennis Howard replied to Webb with a photo of what appeared to be a Japanese internment camp in the US, writing: 'Fine. Maybe this is a better comparison. The analogy isn’t the important part, it’s the conditions these ASYLUM SEEKERS (which is legal. It’s legal to flee their conditions and seek a better life in our country.) are being kept in. What’s sick, is you feel they deserve this.'

Actor Yvette Nicole Brown (Community on NBC) stood by Milano's post, replying indirectly to critics by calling out Pence for looking away in the photo and writing: 'Crazy when you realize the Nazis looked at their detainees. Your @VP won’t even do that.'

Not everyone was offended by Milano's post, however, like her fellow actor Yvette Nicole Brown (Community on NBC)

Peter Morely, who descends from Holocaust survivors, tweeted a photo with his grandparents and wrote: 'These facilities at the border would DISGUST them completely'

Peter Morely, who descends from Holocaust survivors, tweeted a photo with his grandparents and wrote:

'My Maternal Grandparents met in a Concentration Camp. If it weren't for them, I would NOT be alive.T hey immigrated to this country. Most of my family died in Auschwitz because I'm Jewish & so were THEY! These facilities at the border would DISGUST them completely. #CloseTheCamps'

When Ocasio-Cortez compared detention centers to Nazi labor camps, however, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement rejecting that characterization.

'The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,' the statement read.

'That position has repeatedly and unambiguously been made clear in the Museum’s official statement on the matter – a statement that is reiterated and reaffirmed now.'

The Trump administration has repeatedly denied migrants are being mistreated in detention facilities.

On Friday Pence tweeted a thread calling media coverage of conditions at the border dishonest and blaming Democrats for crowded conditions at one temporary facility.

On Friday, Pence criticized media coverage of his detention center visits, calling it incomplete

Pence shared this image of himself talking to asylum-seekers at the Donna Soft-Sided Processing Facility in Donna, Texas

'CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well,' Pence tweeted.

'The crisis at our southern border is not a "manufactured crisis", it is real and is overwhelming our system. To show this, we also visited an overcrowded facility for adult men, many of whom have been arrested multiple times.

'These men were in a temporary holding area because Democrats in Congress have refused to fund additional bed space.

'Rather than broadcast the full story, showing the compassionate care the American people are providing to vulnerable families, tonight CNN only played video of men in the temporary facility and didn’t play any footage of the family facility at all ignoring the excellent care being provided to families and children. Our great @CBP agents deserve better and the American people deserve the whole story from CNN!'

Perhaps in line with Pence's post about the need for more bed space, a Twitter user with account name @Coyote_dos wrote: 'Everyone has opinions. Whether you're on one side or the other, I've yet to hear any solutions. What's the solution??'

Customs and Border Protection Chief Operating Officer John Sanders stepped down earlier this month amid outrage over his agency’s treatment of detained migrant children.

President Donald Trump signed an emergency spending bill on July 1 allocating $4.6 billion in aid to help alleviate the crisis at the border.