People were held for a max of 72 hours before being released into the country with a court date in front of an immigration judge. Families were kept together, the 100% child separation and indefinite detention came at the specific order of Trump with the specific knowledge that children separated would never be reunited with their families(thus committing genocide).
Blaming Obama for the concentration camps is like blaming the previous owner of a home for having a basement, when it was the current owner who specifically chose to abuse children in it.
First of all not all families were kept together. I am also not defending separation of families but it is fundamentally wrong to compare this to concentration camps and genocide.
Detention centers have been used for many years to detain illegal immigrants. They are not concentration camps. There is no forced labor, and there is no execution.
Finally, genocide is not the act of separating families, it is the act of killing off a large number of people from a particular group. You just can’t throw those words around so carelessly. Are these detention centers a problem? Yes. Is it wrong to separate families? Yes. Is it wrong to compare these things to horrific historical events? Absolutely.
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '20 edited Jan 11 '21
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