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concentration camp

noun as in prison camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners

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The film, which includes a wrenching visit to the Majdanek concentration camp, is deftly peppered with insightful strands of Jewish history and culture.

Advisers have cautioned surrogates and allies to keep the charged term out of their remarks, Rolling Stone claims, to avoid “the concentration camps framing” that dogged Trump's campaign.

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“It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It’s not going to be building concentration camps,” Tom Homan, a former acting director of ICE under Trump, said last month on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

Trump has publicly fantasized about a “bloody story” of mass deportations and concentration camps targeting Black and brown “illegal immigrants.”

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Now he is invoking the Alien Enemies Act that was used to put Japanese Americans in concentration camps.

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