It Couldn't Happen Here - But It Already Has
The United States of America (formerly known as the Land of the Free) is running concentration camps. These camps are not housing terrorists or criminals who pose a threat to our nation’s security or the safety of its citizens; they are being used to imprison innocent children.
As though being separated from their parents isn’t traumatizing enough, these children are living in filth and squalor. They are being denied every possible human comfort or necessity – from bedding, to clean clothing, to diapers. They are being subjected to constant fear, and treatment that no animal lover would allow to befall a stray dog.
Now there is an outbreak of lice. How long before these children have their heads shaved to deal with the situation – (sound familiar?) How long before they are tattooed with numbers to keep track of their whereabouts – (sound familiar?) How long before they’re used for labour, because work sets you free – ( sound familiar?) How long before they are subjected to medical experiments in order to “pay for their keep” – (sound familiar?)
No, no, no – surely it will never come to that. That’s what Hitler’s supporters said as they watched their neighbours loaded into cattle cars. And that’s what Trump supporters are saying now – despite what’s happening right before their eyes.
The justification for these concentration camps among the Trump faithful is that the parents of these children have broken the law – which begs the question: What laws have these children broken to warrant imprisonment under inhumane conditions? By this reasoning, the children of criminals deserve to be punished.
If that be the case, why aren’t the children of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen in jail? They’re both convicted criminals, so why are their kids not languishing in a cell somewhere – filthy, lice-infested, cut off from any contact with their law-breaking parents?
Why aren’t the children of all convicted felons being suitably punished for the sins of their fathers? Why aren’t the offspring of rapists, drug dealers, and murderers not living in concentration camps alongside the children of migrants?
I think the answer is clear. The children of black and brown “law breakers” are different from their white counterparts, and thereby less worthy of even a modicum of humane treatment.
Again, that mindset should sound hauntingly familiar, and remind all of us how the children of Jews were also deemed less worthy than their blond, blue-eyed, Germanic-looking schoolmates.
If you are turning a blind eye to how innocent children are being treated, you are no different than the “good Germans” who denied the stench of crematoriums filling the air. If you are pretending that what’s happening right now is somehow NOT happening, you are no different than the German citizens who insisted that concentration camps never existed, and were merely a myth conjured up by lying, thieving, less-than-human Jews.
If you condone the imprisonment and inhumane treatment of children – babies, toddlers, kids too young to even understand what laws they’ve allegedly broken and what threat they pose to our nation – you are as despicable as the Nazi sympathizers who also condoned such behaviour.
So embrace it, wear it, own it. We know who the collaborators among us are – and after Nazism was defeated, they didn’t fare any better than you will. This might be the opportune time for those cheering the imprisonment of migrant children to check out the living conditions in Argentina.
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meant to reply to the OP and not my K&R... 
and gays, and Jehovah witness and Romas. These are camps that were used, at best, as slave labor, but the purpose was the "Final solution " to eradicate Jews from the face of the earth.
Yes, the camps in the border are horrible but, please, do not cheapen the history of the real concentration camps, or the Holocaust, or even Hitler, by applying them to other venues.
There are still Holocaust survivors among us, there are still camps liberators among us. Talk to them, go to a Holocaust Museum - there are several in the country to learn the real story.
Until then, with all due respect, the people who use this term belittle the memory of all the victims.
I never thought I would live to see such a day.
