Bigger India
Not Every Concentration Camp Is Auschwitz
Why it’s fair to use the controversial phrase in the debate over U.S. immigrant detentions.
As one of the few journalists permitted to tour the government’s new internment camp, about 40 miles from the southern border, the New York Times correspondent tried to be scrupulously fair. Forcing civilians to live behind barbed wire and armed guards was surely inhumane, and there was little shelter from the blazing summer heat. But on the other hand, the barracks were “clean as a whistle.”