Alligator Alcatraz, is it a concentration camp?
The left, like a hivemind has invested all corners of news and social media claiming that Trump’s new detention facility is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Similar accusations were made related to MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia and El Salvador’s CECOT detention facility.
Many claimed that Garcia was dead, killed by the South American SS and transported by the American Gestapo. Months later Garcia came home, unharmed. Alive and well.
So is “Alligator Alcatraz” a concentration camp? Well the definition of “concentration camp” is as follows according to Oxford, the most credible dictionary in the English language.
“a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933-45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.”
Illegal immigrants held in temporary detention awaiting removal from the United States are neither “political prisoners” nor “persecuted minorities.” They are, individuals who willfully chose to violate federal law (8 USC 1325) by entering the country illegally.
Illegal immigrants come in all sizes, races, and of all religions. A white Canadian agnostic is just as likely to end up in alligator Alcatraz after entering the United States without inspection as an El Salvadoran national.
Let’s also not forget the implications of calling this facility, which is no different inherently than virtually any other facility run under Obama or Biden - a concentration camp.
During the Holocaust, prisoners were tattooed with numbers, they ceased to be people, and became those numbers. The children were ripped away from their parents and executed immediately. The elderly were taken straight to the gas chambers. Why? Because they were viewed as weak and useless. Unable to work.
The rations given to those who survived day 1 were so slim that they either were just enough to keep the prisoner alive, or just barely to little to continue bodily functions - leading to their deaths.
When a person became too weak to work, they were killed. What productive labor did they engage in? Survivor Daniel Szafran told me in 2018 that he was made to build a brick wall each day and tear it down, only to rebuild it the next day.
The strongest among them were forced to carry the bodies of thousands of their former friends who had just been gassed to the incinerators. Entering the freshly gassed rooms was too dangerous for the German soldiers, but the “workers” were disposable. Once finished, when their friends were ashes, they too would be executed and incinerated.
Does this sound like an immigration detention facility where temporarily housed people are provided their own beds and hot meals?
