Everyone please keep calling them concentration camps. Not only is it true,

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63. I think Concentration Camp is Accurate

I believe that the time is upon us for making the the connection openly and not seeking euphemisms or substitutes.

We are at a crossroad, a decision point, and we need to make a stand here for human rights. We have been at such crossroads before and how we deal early on can influence the course of events for good or for evil.

Whether migrants, refugees, or asylum-seekers-we and other countries as well as international organizations are projecting vastly greater numbers of seeking shelter as climate change, with displacement, scarcity, and corruption, all negatively, affecting living conditions and rule of law around the globe.

We have a sad history in the US of placing children in total institutions where they have been treated with immense cruelty and neglect. We also a history of positive caring for children, of seeing them as individuals worthy of care and love.

We cannot depend upon our current administration to suddenly change direction and become humanitarian regarding children in need. It is going to be up to us to address and debate what is to be done and to set the course for the future. We need the public debate and we can't censor ourselves in the process.


https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigrants-detention-centers-southern-border-experts-1445483


Rachel Ida Buff, a professor of American studies who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told Newsweek Ocasio-Cortez was "absolutely" correct to describe U.S. migrant detention centers as concentration camps.

Sociology professor Richard Lachmann at the University at Albany, SUNY, agreed, telling Newsweek: "Concentration camps are any place where large numbers of people are held in poor conditions because of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or other characteristics rather than as individuals convicted of crimes."

Noting the experiences of migrant children in U.S. detention centers—some of whom are set to be housed at Fort Sill, a site that held Japanese Americans and Native Americans before them, back in the 20th century—Buff said: "The trauma these children are suffering threatens to disable a generation."

"All asylum seekers crossing into the United States are placed in 'hileras,' cells chilled to 50-55 degrees. They are stripped of warm clothing. Many get sick; several have died. This is torture and life endangerment," she added.