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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi blows off AOC 'concentration camp' remarks [View all]emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)variety of present day and historical examples than I had considered. But I think Ocasio-Cortez
wanted to evoke concentration camps used as the machinery of genocide and mass unspeakable suffering during the Holocaust.
I think our current immigration policies used at the Southern border to discriminate against Central Americans seeking asylum, and their chaotic implementation, need no comparison. They are a stain on America.
They have caused trauma that will echo down the generations for separated families. Children detained in cruel and unsafe conditions, now denied recreation, legal aid, language learning, are at risk in many ways presently and into their future.
Those lost, never to be reunited, who may be in abusive custodial care, are certainly undergoing emotional harm, and may have lasting developmental deficits.
To add insult to injury, Trumps propaganda about these immigrants is bigoted, politically exploitive, and morally corrupt.
We do not know, except in a few cases media has followed, what has happened to deportees.
In one case, a young man deported to Mexico was murdered, targeted because of a vendetta against his cousin.
So to me, a credible and convincing case to wake us to action need not be enlarged upon.
But if AOC or George Takeis references serve to make more Americans outraged at the Trump administrations purely political and inhumane response to immigrants, all to the good.
I do consider, however, that some descendants of holocaust survivors take umbrage.