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Sorry, I missed this comment earlier. What does it have to do with ICE detention facilities?

• eesmith 7y ago
  You wrote "If ICE facilities qualify as concentration camps, then so does every prison. At that point it's no longer a useful term." I pointed out that your own statements contradict your own conclusion, in that at least some prisons in the US 1) contain only people who have gone through the court system are the result of a crime, and not merely waiting for a hearing, 2) are not in harsh conditions. I also pointed out that to many Japanese-Americans held in concentration camps in the American West during WWII, that to them "concentration camp" is a very important term. Do you agree that those Japanese-Americans were in concentration camps? If you agree, then why are the ICE detention facilities not concentration camps? If you disagree, then why weren't they concentration camps, and why did high-level US officials at the time regard them as concentration camps in internal use, while officially avoided that term?