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Detained Without Trial: A History of Concentration Camps

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jamelle Bouie talks to Andrea Pitzer, the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps. The two provide context to a conversation being had today about whether the detention centers on the border merit comparison to concentration camps. Plus, what justifications have been used in the past to keep civilians detained without trial? What can history tell us about this moment? Also, John Di Domenico returns with a new set of tweets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nazi Germany, concentration camps, human rights violations, Laura Bush's weighed in,

0:05.2

Michelle Obama, Rosalind Cardigan, all the first ladies going back to Eleanor Roosevelt,

0:09.1

she's apparently weighed in as well. General Sessions, what's going on here?

0:15.0

Well, it's a really exaggeration. Of course, in Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from

0:20.8

leaving the country. They want us to take care of the miners, and that's fine,

0:25.5

but they don't want to give us the money to take care of.

0:27.9

There are some who would like us to look the other way when dealing with families at the

0:31.5

border and not enforce the law. The whole world is laughing at the United States and they

0:36.4

happen for years. Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Jim Albuy,

0:44.3

slated Chief Political Correspondent in your host for today's episode.

0:48.4

Last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero tolerance policy for legal border

0:52.8

crossings. If detained, migrants would face criminal charges, even if they were asylum

0:57.7

seekers who tried to access official ports of entry. If they came with children, the government

1:02.4

would remove them to separate facilities. On Wednesday, the White House pulled back from this

1:07.3

position in favor of a new one. It would detain all members of families together, itself a

1:12.6

violation of federal law. And all of this, critics have blashed at the Trump administration as cruel

1:17.8

and humane. They've also made provocative analogies, calling the center's concentration camps,

1:23.6

the description that for many Americans evokes the third Reich.

1:27.1

Administration officials have pushed back. It's a real exaggeration,

1:30.8

said Jeff Sessions during an interview with Fox News reporter Laura Ingram. In Nazi Germany,

1:35.0

they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country, but this is a serious matter.

1:39.2

Constraint of defenders have done the same, condemning the analogy of hyperbolic and beyond the

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