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We already knew Trump was in favor of concentration camps.
That’s not news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/never-again-means-nothing-if-holocaust-analogies-are-always-off-limits/
That’s not news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/never-again-means-nothing-if-holocaust-analogies-are-always-off-limits/
Ok I’ll just quote myself.
Is CBP running concentration camps? Several recent articles have made the case that they are, using a definition from @andreapitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps”: “mass detention of civilians without trial.”
Is CBP running concentration camps? Several recent articles have made the case that they are, using a definition from @andreapitzer, author of “One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps”: “mass detention of civilians without trial.”
We know that some Border Patrol agents refer to immigrants as “tonks” — defined in court documents as the sound heard when agents hit immigrants in the head with a flashlight and “that it is part of the [Tucson Border Patrol’s] agency’s culture.”
We know immigrants are being held in “dog pounds” & “freezers,” and in facilities meant for one-fifth the number of people, in soiled clothing and with limited access to showers. We know that ICE has stopped updating its official “List of Deaths in ICE Custody” page.
Nazi concentration camps — which, in Germany, began in 1933 — and the Holocaust’s death (or “extermination”) camps, which began in 1941, are not the same thing, though they’re often conflated in American discourse.
What we now know of the CBP camps does not include many hallmarks associated with Nazi camps — forced labor, eg or the detention of citizens. But the earliest camps — known as “wild camps” — were makeshift centers that did not have the infrastructure of later state camps.
Never again has been now for a while, friends.
So want to note this. Because indeed, this piece I’m quoting was from a year ago, and now people coming to seek refuge inside our borders have no chance. And to note that those who are still detained—concentrated—by ICE are in COVID hotboxes.
https://twitter.com/dlind/status/1273456481652936704?s=21 https://twitter.com/dlind/status/1273456481652936704
https://twitter.com/dlind/status/1273456481652936704?s=21 https://twitter.com/dlind/status/1273456481652936704
...employees at the Adelanto Detention Center are spraying HDQ Neutral — which manufacturer Spartan Chemical warns can be harmful as it can cause skin burns and serious eye damage when inhaled — in poorly ventilated areas filled with detainees. https://www.insider.com/report-detention-centers-use-disinfectant-causing-bleeding-and-pain-2020-6
https://twitter.com/trashy_in_pink/status/1273457946849087491?s=21 https://twitter.com/trashy_in_pink/status/1273457946849087491
