I’ll admit that’s a pretty dictionary definition but it doesn’t change the fact that if we use that language they’ve always been concentration camps. From the very beginning under Bush Sr (I think) definitely under Clinton, Bush, Obama’s and now Trump.
Call them what they are. Short term prisons for kids & adults.
Short term? They are losing children! They have no time limit on their potential incarceration. <--- The Incarceration Of Children! What's with the trying to pretty this up even though you admit it's cruel? The harsher the language the better the likelihood of stopping it. It's important and necessary! This IS a human rights violation no matter how you word it. Are you trying to protect your own heart from this atrocity by going down this road of minimizing it? Just stop. This is America right now. These children's delicate, still forming brains are being psychologically damaged at the hands of the government.
Fine, politicians can't be trusted in many things but I'm gonna go ahead and say I never once thought it would separate children from their parents as a deterrent for illegal border crossing and to use as leverage for a god forsaken, mother Fu*king useless, absurd wall. Did you? I trusted the government enough to think it would never do that. You seriously want to treat this as an Alarmists call?
The children aren't allowed to be touched even to comfort them. They aren't even allowed to comfort one another. Do you think they have the capacity to rationalize the whole thing like you are so nonchalantly able to? If you're not outraged then your empathy meter is on the whack. My heart breaks for them and if I were able I would get myself shot or arrested to reunite these children with their parents and I would comfort them all until I could manage it.
Stop being a weirdo!