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American Concentration Camps
Jul. 2nd, 2019 10:54 amYesterday, a group of US Congressmen forced their way into a border camp - actually a concentration camp - being used to hold immigrants awaiting asylum hearings. See the article here. Note that the inmates are not yet illegal - if they win their asylum cases they become legal.
The conditions inside were not as bad as concentration camps ran by Nazis. That's a low bar to be sure, but the conditions were by any reasonable standard appalling. It is inhumane that my taxes are being used to mistreat people and to pay others to do so.
In related news, a right-wing activist has busily posted lies about the Congressional visit. This despite the activist not being even in the same state as the visit. If you have to lie about the visit to distract from the treatment, you have a problem.
I am not in favor of people entering the US illegally, and I suspect many of the inmates at these camps are economic refugees, not human rights refugees. That does not excuse maltreatment. Human rights are for all humans, not just some.
The conditions inside were not as bad as concentration camps ran by Nazis. That's a low bar to be sure, but the conditions were by any reasonable standard appalling. It is inhumane that my taxes are being used to mistreat people and to pay others to do so.
In related news, a right-wing activist has busily posted lies about the Congressional visit. This despite the activist not being even in the same state as the visit. If you have to lie about the visit to distract from the treatment, you have a problem.
I am not in favor of people entering the US illegally, and I suspect many of the inmates at these camps are economic refugees, not human rights refugees. That does not excuse maltreatment. Human rights are for all humans, not just some.
