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Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency? (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 1 week ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/35165751

Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:

“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”

But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:

“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago

But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:

I mean, we still refuse to call Japanese internment camps what they were - concentration camps.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

"If immigrants just concentrated more, we wouldn't need these camps."

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

https://youtu.be/yM2wO6eQdns