The title of this article says it all. I agree with your sentiment and appraisal of the situation surrounding these 'camps' in the USA.

Maybe some of them entered illegally, but that's a misdemeanor crime for your first offense, and it certainly doesn't warrant being kept in horrible conditions indefinitely, until a judge just happens to get to your case.

With the hypocrisy of the immigrant economy in the richer states nearer to the border, the wealthy are happy to take advantage of hiring immigrant workers to save a buck while outwardly jumping on the trump 'immigrant bad' band wagon. It's 'rattle out of the pram' politics. People need someone to hate because they're aware, deep down (subconsciously), that they are slaves to the state. So trump gives them a group of marginalized people to throw their rattle at.

"It's there fault the economy isn't working and I have to pay so much taxes." The call of the moron blinded by blame politics.

It's the same in the UK where I'm from, but not as bad, although the current government are trying their hardest to play blame politics game. I have relatives in America so I'm not just spouting conjecture. Tbh, the US has some of the worst track record in modern times - for a western government - of using the political tactic of demonizing a particular group to distract it's populous.

These facilities aren't as bad as the concentration camps during the holocaust, or even concentration camps in certain other horrible times during history, but they are concentrating individuals who's only crime was coming to America and seeking asylum.

At the end of the day if a country purports to be a moral society with justice and laws etc, then the due process of that law should apply to everyone in that country. If they are there illegally, that is what the due process of law is for. Here in the UK immigrants can apply for asylum and even if their not really in fear in their own country, they get a minimal time here (living freely) before being sent back home. Immigrants are just people who are desperate in one way or another, whether it be financially desperate, or desperate to escape a war torn country. In both cases they deserve some equality in how they're treated. Those who may become a drain on the economy... well they still deserve a fair hearing (and to be treated like human beings) before being sent back home. Those who are fleeing genocide in fear of their lives deserve our compassion and shelter. That's my 10 cents anyway :-)

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