Are U.S. detention centers really, as some have suggested, concentration camps? Celina Biniaz doesn’t think so. To her, a concentration camp is a place where captives live in daily fear of being killed. She should know. At 13, she was in Auschwitz.
Migrants seeking asylum, including children, are held in a temporary transition area under the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas, in March.
The humanitarian crisis there has been sidetracked by a debate over language. The intent of those invoking the Holocaust comparison was clear: to issue a moral wake-up call for the country. Scores of Japanese American families were held at the Manzanar Relocation Center under Executive Order 9066. The U.S. Holocaust Museum issued a statement this week saying it “unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary.”
“My mother talked about what it was like in school until they said she couldn’t go to school,” Elson said. “Then you couldn’t vote. And then you couldn’t have a job. Then you’re told you have to live in a certain neighborhood and then they build a wall around the neighborhood. That’s how it starts.”
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