They’re referring to them as internment camps as to not equivocate the (admittedly bad) camps where Japanese-American citizens were held with the industrialized

They’re referring to them as internment camps as to not equivocate the (admittedly bad) camps where Japanese-American citizens were held with the industrialized genocide of Nazi German concentration camps. Imprisoning Japanese Americans during WWII was very wrong, but it wasn’t anywhere near the abject horror of Nazi concentration camps. The words are generally synonyms, but I think the distinction is important.