Is Trump Building 'Concentration Camps'? These Experts Have No Doubts

[erronis]

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/is-trump-building-concentration-camps
Tim Dickinson

ICE's immigrant mass-detention facilities fit a dark, century-old pattern

Donald Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz" (White House photo)

Donald Trump's brutal ICE detention facilities have been blasted as "concentration camps." This is a freighted term -- summoning more than a century of deplorable history. But experts in the field have no hesitation in using these words to describe the network of facilities that the federal government is using to literally warehouse tens of thousands of immigrants -- men, women, and even children -- snatched out of their communities by masked federal agents.

The activist group 50501 recently hosted a video call on this topic. It featured Andrea Pizer, the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, as well as journalist Frank Abe, co-editor of The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration and a longtime activist in pursuing redress for the abuses of America's World War II camps.

In his introductory remarks, Abe insisted that Trump's new ICE warehouses "are nothing but 21st Century American concentration camps." He added that the subject was personal to him: "I'm a third-generation Japanese American, and I know a concentration camp when I see one."

The words "concentration camp," for many, evoke the horrors of Hitler and of facilities like Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people were murdered by the Nazis. But Pitzer drew a firm distinction (as do other experts) between "extermination centers" and concentration camps. The latter are not synonymous with "death camps" -- although people held in concentration camps often die by disease, deprivation, or indifference.

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The hour-long 50501 presentation is well worth your time, and includes success stories of local activists who marshalled their communities to block the administration's planned acquisition of warehouse space. The video is available at the link below:

[irisblue]

1. Of course this administration is.

[Ray Bruns]

2. No, no, no. Trump isn't building concentration camps.

Trump is merely building facilities where certain groups of people will be “concentrated” for orderly removal from the country.

Totally different.

[ShazamIam]

3. These concetration camps make me so ashamed to be a Citizen of the U.S.A. How can we stop this?

These people were encouraged to come here to work cheap. then the economy slowed and they needed to send them back. They can't remove them fast enough so they imprison them. It is wrong to call them camps when they are prisons of innocent people.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. And for WHOM are Trump's concentration camps being built?

I know it’s not NAZIs.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. It would not surprise me to see a few camps built ...

... to keep disabled war veterans out of the public eye. Trump's excursions cannot be seen to have consequences.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Truly important to consider.

Dimdonnie NAZI doesn’t like witnesses interfering with his sundry treasons.

[erronis]

6. It might surprise a few card-carrying US neo-NAZIs when they end up in these camps also

trump/miller/thiel/musk and the rest of the kleptocrats have no real use for the dotards once they've solidified their hold on the US society.

Expect a lot of 2nd Amendment freaks to also not like the final solution.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Let's see to it that they are the residents.

No matter how much money they have

! trump/miller/thiel/musk and the rest of the kleptocrats !

don’t stand a chance vs. We the People.

That’s why they HATE democracy.

[617Blue]

7. If they doing mass deportation what are the camps for?

[Delmette2.0]

14. Exactly my question

[Delmette2.0]

15. That is exactly my question, too.

[Bumbles]

8. Well, if the Dems take back the House, the Senate and the White House,

I have a perfect use for these "detention facilities." Let's be nice and call them camps.

[erronis]

12. "Great Camps" - just like the rich own now.

Perhaps next to a running brook - running through the center of the camp. Used for sanitary purposes. (Get drinking water at the start.)

[Norrrm]

11. Difference between a concentration camp and prison. https://i.imgur.com/8HweBl2.jpeg

Difference between a concentration camp and prison.

[erronis]

13. Which makes most of this regime's facilities "concentration camps". Many of the inhabitants never had due process.

Thanks for that quote. Very apt.