We have just started reading about the massive concentration camps known as Auschwitz-Birkenau. People think of these instances as the only option for concentration camps, but these are the most inhumane examples. The author states that the United States is operating a concentration camp in response to a spike in arrivals at the southern border. This is referred to as a concentration camp because it is keeping one group of people separate from another group of people.
So far, 24 people have died in the custody of immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration. This administration has decided to use Fort Still to house 1,4000 unaccompanied migrant children captured at the border. Although many believe that these people in the houses are illegal immigrants, they aren't. They are refugees, who have a legal right to a hearing under domestic and international law.
Furthermore, Trump's Department of Homeland Security has been using "metering." This means that migrants are forced to wait on the Mexican side of the border for several days or even weeks, without proper housing or food. Trump doesn't seem to care about these people and is instead pushing the problem further and further away. A tactic he seems to follow often. His goal is to make it as difficult as possible to get a hearing, so less refugees are entering the United States.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentration-camps-southern-border-migrant-detention-facilities-trump/
This is not an issue that is unique to the Trump administration. All U.S. presidents in modern history are guilty of ethnically-motivated deportation—Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, old Bush—the list goes on. It's clear that the United States doesn't care about illegal white immigrants, otherwise America would've cracked down on birth tourism long before this January. And there's one very clear reason why politicians don't care about illegal immigrants from Canada, even though the number of illegal Canadian immigrants is similar to the number of illegal Mexican immigrants. Yet the deportation rate is a hundred times higher for illegal Mexican immigrants. What is the one reason? Obviously because they are not white.
ReplyDeleteThe concentration camps on the border are abysmal and horrifying to say the least. More than 11,000* children are now being held by the U.S. government on any given day. Children are separated from their families and are denied basic amenities. The food they're served is expired. The cells are overwhelmingly overcrowded, with 155 people in a cell designed for 35. With a lack of medical attention and unsafe and unhealthy conditions, these people are being horribly mistreated. There's no denying that some parallels can be drawn between the horrors on the border and the early parts of the holocaust in the mistreatment of human beings. Overcrowding, family separation, and unsafe conditions, are all signs that something horrible is happening and not enough is being done about it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/border-facilities/593239/