Julie Orringer

Should We Call Detention Centers Concentration Camps?

A better historical analog would be the internment camps of Vichy France. But that’s no compliment.

By Julie Orringer

Ms. Orringer is a novelist.

Once refugees have crossed our borders, we have a responsibility to treat them with compassion. If we fail to do that, we shouldn’t be surprised to hear ourselves compared to those who have oppressed other human beings during the worst periods of our history.
- Julie Orringer


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/migrant-kids-concentration-camps.html