“Concentration Camps”

While armchair pundits debate whether the border facilities housing immigrant children in substandard conditions are properly called “concentration camps,” life goes on for most of us.  But Andrea Pitzer, writing in the New York Review of Books daily edition, puts these developments in historical perspective and outlines the strong possibility of an even grimmer future.  Indefinite detention, she writes, rarely becomes temporary and more often is a beginning wedge for wider abuses.  In short, if they aren’t quite concentration camps now, they will be soon.

Those of us who care about human rights should not wait until then.

On July 12, Lights for Liberty is hosting a Vigil to End Human Detention Camps.  It’s not hard to take action and make your voice heard.  Sign up here to participate in a vigil in your local community.