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Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
Do we call this full-blown Nazism yet or do we wait until the first concentration camp opens on US soil?
No, because they’re not flying flags with swastikas, and most importantly, they’re not being cartoonishly evil (have some badly done crime statistics on hand to wave around). /s
There have been concentration camps for a while now.. Here’s a list of addresses that ICE kindly provided.
It’ll take more than that. America had concentration camps for the Japanese while we were actively fighting the Nazis in WWII and their own camps.
You mean what Guantanamo has already been repurposed for?
That’s why I wrote “on US soil”. US concentration camps have long existed outside the US.
The few concentration camps that have existed on US soil in the past have been closed.
But not used for Americans and legal US residents to my knowledge. Yet……
The second sentence of the Wikipedia article literally says about 2/3 were American citizens.
The section on ‘Exclusion, removal, and detention’ says “[s]omewhere between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were subject to this mass exclusion program, of whom about 80,000 Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) were U.S. citizens.”
So yes, second and third generation Japanese Americans, natural born citizens, were held in American concentration camps.
TIL 😣
George Takei (Idk how to spell his last name) was in one as a child. There are people alive today that were in American Concentration Camps. Its not some long distant past.