We now have concentration camps in this country.

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37. Not all of the Nazi concentration camps were death camps where people were gassed and then cremated.

Several were "work camps" where people were worked to death, literally, doing labor for the Third Reich with minimal food, clothing, medical care and sanitation. Exhaustion and disease killed off many of them. When they were no longer needed for the work they had been assigned to,they were shipped to another work camp or were sent to a death camp to be exterminated in "shower" rooms which emitted lethal gas.

The term concentration camp means people concentrated in one place. It does not mean death camp.

Make no mistake about it. Trump intends to leave people in detention camps -- AKA concentration camps -- through contracts with private prisons. Private prisons means no incentive to spend much on necessities for inmates because it would cut into profits. The goal is to frighten people into self-deportation when they hear about camp conditions and being locked up for indefinite periods. Also meant to frighten other migrants and immigrants from coming to the US. This is directly out of the German Nazi playbook. Hitler initially threatened Jews and other people whom he considered undesirables with deportation. Then the restriction laws were put into place as an incentive for Jews to leave the country. Their citizenship was revoked because they were called "not German," regardless of whether they were born in Germany.

Nazi concentration camps were initially called detention centers for criminals, but were actually prisons for political dissidents. It was not until later that they become concentration camps for people who did not self-deport, who had their citizenship denied, along with Poles, Roma (Gypsies), people with mental health diagnoses, and people with various other disabilities.

The Trump regime is going straight down this path. He is now denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants. By making citizenship an open question, he can expand the issue of who is a citizen until he gains the power to revoke citizenship for anyone he chooses.

Death camps and roundups of people without legal due process did not happen instantly, overnight in Nazi Germany. It was a gradual process of getting the populace accustomed to the othering of some people, first with laws denying them civil rights, then with denying their citizenship and labeling them as criminals, and finally exterminating them.

The time to speak up and oppose this kind of government action is NOW, before it gets worse.