“This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.”
“And for the shrieking Republicans who don’t know the difference: concentration camps are not the same as death camps. Concentration camps are considered by experts as ‘the mass detention of civilians without trial.’ And that’s exactly what this administration is doing.”
These “experts” remain anonymous and un-cited. They are experts because she calls them so and because they release data vague enough to be cherry-picked.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines “concentration camp” as “a camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as dangerous or undesirable.”
These illegal aliens (as that is what they are) are given hearings to decide the legitimacy and legality of their refugee claim. At least they are when the sheer volume of critters coming across does not overwhelm our adjudication courts. When the tidal wave is too much and the hearings do not take place within the allotted time, these illegal aliens are often loaded onto planes or buses, transported to various cities across the country and simply released. They are given a court date to reappear to justify their asylum claim. 87%, EIGHTY SEVEN PERCENT do not return for their hearing. They just disappear into the fabric of our society, stealing a job intended for a legal worker, until such time as they commit yet a third crime to illuminate themselves back onto the target board of justice. (They broke our laws simply coming here, then again by failing to appear.)
Next, harsh conditions were what the Jews endured. Yes, I’m being deliberately mild. No heat, poor, insufficient food and water. No medical treatment for injuries or illness, inadequate clothing for climate conditions, insufficient equipment for the slave labor they were forced into. The illegal aliens we detain are often treated better than hard working young Americans struggling to make it on their first real job. They get food and water. Clean, potable water, not from a toilet like AOC claims. Those jail house approved contraptions have a toilet and sink combined in one single tower, not unlike a stacked washer and dryer. Two vessels moving water, two separate water lines. No cross contamination possible unless they piss or shit in the sink.
They have hygiene products, showers, heat and cooling, ventilation. Games for kids. Nowhere near harsh.
Overall, experts described US detention facilities as being far different from those of the earliest concentration camps, or from the Nazi camps—even from the ones that weren’t death camps.
The original purpose of concentration camps was to remove the populace from areas that were controlled or congested by guerillas and thus deny the guerillas popular support. This is not the purpose of the detention facilities in the Southwest.
So, under the “original definition” of a concentration camp, under this original intent, MEXICO would be detaining these people in order to sequester them from the insurgents such as the cartels and coyotes.
What we’re doing is just not the same as what the Nazis or Soviets did, and it’s a disservice to people suffering under dictatorship around the world to act like it is. We’re not rounding up legal citizens or going after specific minority groups and holding them indefinitely to squash dissent.
What is really comes down to is that AOC simply wants open borders. Trump has asked for nearly $5 billion in emergency funding to add more detention centers and the accompanying infrastructure. AOC refuses to fund anything that Trump wants.
Fascism
[fash-iz-uh m]
noun
- a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on her argument that President Donald Trump is running “concentration camps” to detain migrants and that his administration is “authoritarian and fascist”.
“Never again means something … the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing,” the lawmaker said during an Instagram Live discussion, adding that the Trump presidency is “fascist.”
The bitch just likes to sling labels and names at people she doesn’t like and who don’t espouse her socialist views. If Trump were truly a Fascist, AOC would be in one of these concentration camps herself. Not the kind that truly exist along the border, rather, the kind she says is there.
A member of the Polish Parliament actually invited her to come to Poland and tour one of the preserved WW2 concentration camps to see for herself what real conditions were like. She refused. The truth doesn’t mesh with her preconceived notion of Trump’s guilt and the heinousness of all Republicans in general.
AOC was also invited to tour the facilities along the border. She stayed for a few seconds then left without gaining any contradictory truth. Instead, she brought up some arcane Facebook page disparaging her, yelled at the guards, admonishing them and claiming that she “wasn’t safe there”. She then had pictures taken of her by a fence where she could summon up fake tears as she viewed the “thousands” of children languishing in squalor. Problem is, it was fake. It was a parking lot with carefully cropped and edited shots eliminating the cars parked there.
It is astonishing to think about. She knows she didn’t see what she purported to see and experience. Yet, she espouses it to be true. I’m not a psychologist, but try to analyze the psyche of a person so deliberately dishonest, who concocts utter lies of such magnitude and repeats them with a straight face and a Twitter account. How hollow must be her soul, how lost, utterly bereft of conscious, hollering her echoing falsehoods within the twisted prison of her dishonest, hate-filled mind.
I pity the bitch. I really do.