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Qasim Rashid at Let's Address This:

The Holocaust Encyclopedia defines a concentration camp as follows:

[What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.]

That’s not a historical footnote—it’s a warning. And today, it’s happening again. Mahmoud Khalil was here legally. Rümeysa Öztürk was here legally. Kilmar Ábrego García was here legally. Yet they are all detained, disappeared, or deported without trial, without conviction, without any due process. Languishing in government ordered confinement, their incarceration can only be described as a Concentration Camp.  The Trump regime’s horrific treatment of a growing number of Black and brown (and yes, documented) immigrants is proof of one thing: When MAGA Republicans claim they “just want legal immigration,” they are lying. What they actually want—what they’ve always actually wanted—is to end non-white immigration entirely, just as it was before the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. That’s what the “Again” in “Make America Great Again” has always meant: a return to Jim Crow America. A return to white Christian nationalism by any means necessary. This isn’t speculation. This is policy. Take the case of Kilmar Ábrego García. This week Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to fight for his release. He discovered something that should horrify every American: El Salvador admits Kilmar committed no crime, that they have no evidence that he committed any crime—and the U.S. government is paying El Salvador to keep him locked away. This despite the US Supreme Court ruling 9-0 that Garcia should be returned to the United States immediately. This is a Constitutional Crisis of the highest order. An American president is defying a direct order from the U.S. Supreme Court. He’s sending innocent people—legal immigrants—to foreign black sites and demanding other governments build more camps to detain more people. Caught on a hot mic last week, Trump remarked to El Salvador's president to build at least five more of these facilities because Trump wants to send “home grown” people there soon. That’s not immigration policy. That’s not national security. That is fascism. And yes—those are concentration camps.

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But don't hold them up too much, they have a lot of work to do.

The relevance of “should they” can be debated

The truth of “they don’t” cannot be in good faith