Letter: The term ‘concentration camp’ is accurate
(Mark Lambie | The El Paso Times | AP file photo) In this April 20, 2019 file photo, migrants are loaded onto a bus at the Border Patrol headquarters on Hondo Pass, in El Paso, Texas. The U.S. Border Patrol's apprehensions of migrants at the border with Mexico hit their highest level in more than a decade, as officials warned they don't have the money and resources to care for the surge of parents and children entering the country. Agents made 132,887 apprehensions in May 2019, the first time that apprehensions have topped 100,000 since April 2007.
Thank you for your recent editorial on concentration camps, which I read on Facebook.
As a rabbi and someone who has studied Jewish history, I believe your understanding of the term "concentration camp" is accurate. More importantly, you have placed the discussion of concentration camps where it belongs, as a purely moral issue, not political.
All Americans, liberal, conservative or other, should be shocked and anguished that inhumane and cruel treatment of children is official national policy. We should all unite, as Americans, to stop it.
Rabbi Richard Ettelson, Ph.D., Murrieta, Calif.
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