Civil Liberties·Severity 5 — Crisis
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
an ICE facility — triggers: died in ice custody, solitary confinement. <p>I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities</p><p>We don’t have concentration camps today in the United States, but we have something close. More than 65,000 people are currently confined in demeaning, often dangerous, sometimes t
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1 sources- 01https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/ice-detention-center-camp
The Guardian
trust 0.82“<p>I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities</p><p>We don’t have concentration camps today in the United States, but we have something close. More than 65,000 people are currently confined in demeaning, often dangerous, sometimes torturous and increasingly deadly conditions not because they have committed a crime, but because they have committed the civil infraction of <em>being on the wrong side of a border”