'We Are Running Concentration Camps': Images From El Paso Stir Outrage Over Migrant Treatment

[niyad]

'We Are Running Concentration Camps': Images From El Paso Stir Outrage Over Migrant Treatment

The conditions in El Paso reminded some observers of the worst of humanity.

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U.S. Border Patrol agents register migrants at a processing center in El Paso, Texas. (Photo: Mani Albrecht/U.S. Customs and Border Protection, via Getty Images)

Hundreds of migrants are being held by border agents in a fenced in encampment under a bridge in El Paso, leading to anger and accusations that the American government is holding people in "concentration camps." Images posted online by reporters and advocates painted a disturbing scene in the Texas city. Lines of migrants behind fencing, being processed by agents from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), walked into a camp area that appeared to be standing room only.

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The encampment, which is referred to by CBP as a "transitional shelter," was set up in the last month according to reporting from Buzzfeed. "The tent that is set up underneath the Paso Del Norte port of entry and adjacent to the Border Patrol's Processing Facility is a transitional shelter," a CBP spokesperson told the outlet. "Due to the large volume of apprehensions within the El Paso Station's Area of Responsibility, the agency has undertaken additional measures to facilitate processing." Photos of the hundreds of people held at the site spread over social media on Wednesday. The publicity came alongside an appearance at El Paso by CBP commissioner Kevin McAleenan, who said that the border was "at its breaking point."

"CBP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis all along our Southwest border," said McAleenan, "and nowhere has that crisis manifested more acutely than here in El Paso." As a number of immigration advocates pointed out, that's a hard sell in 2019 given the amount of border crossings two decades ago—crossings peaked at 1.6 million a year in 2000. The conditions in El Paso reminded some observers of the worst of humanity. "This is a fucking concentration camp," writer Lauren Hough said on Twitter. "We are running concentration camps."

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/28/we-are-running-concentration-camps-images-el-paso-stir-outrage-over-migrant

[mr_lebowski]

1. This kind of hyperbole is really unhelpful, and in fact spreading pics like this around

only gives credence to the whole 'crisis at the border' storyline Trump wants everyone to buy into.

And in fact, if I knew anyone who'd actually been in a REAL concentration camp? I'd be kinda offended at such flippant use of the term.

So, boooo on this story.

JMHO.

[Mosby]

2. +1000

[niyad]

6. out of curiosity, exactly how would YOU describe what is going on there?

[mr_lebowski]

7. Absolutely nothing remotely resembling a 'concentration camp'?

Something similar is happening in MANY places all over the world, with all the displacements there's been, esp. in the Middle East.

We are actually being much cooler and humane than a LOT of other countries right now is the truth. Not that we couldn't be a LOT cooler in general.

This is basically a heavily overloaded border checkpoint situation. Could it be 'nicer'? Sure. Should we have planned better for this influx? HELL YES.

But they were not rounded up from their homes due to ethnicity, etc and imprisoned ...

Also, nobody's emaciated, cracking bricks in the 20F weather, being lined up for inspections in the yard, fed cold gruel, shot at by insane guards ...

Oh, and nobody's going to any gas chamber.

[niyad]

8. We are actually being much cooler and humane than a LOT of other countries right now is the truth.

sooo, separating children, even infants, from their parents, is humane? cooler than other countries? pretty low bar there, don't you think?

perhaps we should be living up to our own purported standards, not saying we are cooler because we aren't as bad as some other countries?

[mr_lebowski]

9. Supposedly separations have been stopped ... but of course it's unacceptable!

We are being more humane than MOST other countries. NOT the separations, obviously, but overall 'conditions'-wise, this is very much par for the course worldwide.

Hell if it was up to me, everyone who has a job lined up or family here to stay with, I'd get their info, set their court date, put an ankle bracelet on the head of the family, and say 'Welcome to the USA! Stay outta trouble or else!'

My main point was that calling an overloaded border checkpoint a 'concentration camp' is MAJOR hyperbole. Pretty sure that most of them are free to just turn around and go home if they want to, in fact.

I don't like our side lying any more than the other side lying, and calling this a concentration camp ... is a lie. It's not even LIKE one.

[kimbutgar]

3. I just watched a documentary about Hitlers concentration camps

This reminds me of the ones they put the Polish people in.

[Mosby]

4. you mean polish Jews, right?

Because the Polish people helped the Nazis with their final solution.


Is the INS/DHS building gas chambers and crematoriums? Do you have any pics of that?

[kimbutgar]

5. No I watched the American history channel documentaries this week about Hitler

It is a Discovery owned network. If you have access you can watch these documentaries on demand and they are also on Netflix. But it was not only polish Jews he enslaved but thought the polish people were not of true Germanic nature. He put them in labor camps to build roads and infrastructure for Germany to 'invade other lands.

The one thing I learned is that the orange maggot is no Hitler but a self serving sob. Hitler put the Germans to work and the only similarly is the they both use the “ other” to unite the people and make Jews or now in our case brown people and Muslims the other.

https://www.ahctv.com/