Such hyperbolic bullshit. When people hear “concentration camp,” they don’t picture “a processing center.” They picture kill camps, work camps, starvation camps. They picture people getting beaten, shot, tortured, disappearing. That’s the mental movie you’re cueing up, and it’s irresponsible.

And if your definition is just “the government holds people behind fences,” then hold my beer: America already runs the biggest detention system on the planet. We’ve got nearly 2 million people locked up, and we lead the world on incarceration even compared to the places everyone loves to call evil. 

But here’s the point: prisons and jails are punishment after conviction. Immigration detention is transit detention: holding/staging facilities for people who are not legally entitled to live and work here while they’re processed and, if they don’t qualify, removed. That can still be harsh, degrading, abusive, and it absolutely needs oversight.

Just stop pretending it’s automatically Dachau because you want the headline to hit harder. Words matter. If you mean detention pending deportation, say that. If you mean forced labor or extermination, say that. Don’t use one loaded term that smuggles in the worst historical meaning and then act surprised when people hear exactly that.