Trump supporters seeking to normalize concentration camps have no mandate to get offended on our behalf when the obvious comparison is made.
The immigrant detention center in Elizabeth, NJ, doesn't look like much. Within its barbed wire perimeter, an American flag hangs limply from a wall-mounted pole. In the parking lot next door, a line of cherry-red semi trucks awaits drivers. Periodically, the metallic whine of air traffic from Newark International Airport breaks the silence.
. I was among them. I chose to fly across the country to get myself arrested because, as a Latina Jew, I believe strongly that both Movimiento Cosecha and Jews Against ICE have it exactly right when they use"Never Again"—a saying most often applied to Holocaust remembrance—as a call to action against this human rights calamity.
Children are being separated from their families at the border and imprisoned in conditions that are unfit for any living being, much less a human child. None of these are the result of increased migration or of a lack of funding. They are political events, direct results of Trump's xenophobic rhetoric and ideology turbo-charging the anti-immigrant policies of the Obama administration.
We aren't predicting how things will unfold from here. How could we? We're not prophets or fortune tellers.
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