Letter: We are talking about concentration camps
(Sean P. Means | Tribune file photo) A weathered sign marks the outer boundary of the site of the Topaz Internment Camp, west of Delta, Utah. During World War II, some 9,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were forced to live in the camp.
The current administration has announced that it will begin holding migrants and their children indefinitely, in violation of long-standing precedent approved by the Supreme Court in the 1997 Reno v Flores agreement.
This is not a new concept in America or around the world. We could even likely rebuild holding facilities on past sites and resurrect names like Topaz, Manzanar and Gila River. That is what we are talking about: concentration camps. Until now those camps were rightly regarded as crimes against our common humanity.
Give Trump his due. His ability to champion the worst of our history remains unchallenged.
Mark Petersen, Park City
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