The United States was one of the first counties to use concentration camps in it's colonial conquest of the Philippines. They were used to ensure that anyone not in the immediate vicinity of the camps could be considered a combatant. The US war in the Philippines was a brutal guerrilla war and required extreme tactics like concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps were used as labor camps and for the genocide of Jews, gypsies, and other 'undesirables.' Simply because we are not staging mass executions does not mean we are not operating concentration camps. The fact that we are even arguing over the semantics being used is a sign we are indulging in human rights abuses. Children are being stolen from their families, even if their parents were breaking the law it gives the US government no right to take their children. Once kidnapped they are being held in inhumane conditions, without proper facilities for sanitation, and other basic needs. This is ridiculous and needs to stop but the issue is being used to divide the working class in order to ensure the continued erosion of American democracy - the perfect example is this video going around where they use an emotional argument about the Holocaust in order to confuse the viewer into defending something as atrocious as the mass kidnapping of children.