# How does the children concentration camps compare to the Japanese camps? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 17, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289 "2018-06-17T21:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289/61 "2018-06-20T21:07:45Z")
Link: > **[Opinion | American Internment Camps (Published 2018)](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/american-internment-camps.html)** > > The government is building tent cities to hold thousands of minors for months at a time. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289/62 "2018-06-21T15:33:05Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > That’s false. [According](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/fysb16/download#page=50)to the Department of Justice for never detained Aliens in 2015 44% did not show up in 2015 and 39% in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![betonbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@betonbill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betonbill)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289/63 "2018-06-22T03:53:16Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > It is not full-scale-Nazi-level-fucked-up, but it’s goddamn moving in that direction, and people seeing parallels are seeing parallels to early days, when it’s still maybe possible to turn things around. However, the Nazis were superb record keepers, and the current administration has botched up that part of the equation. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289/64 "2018-06-22T16:31:20Z")
> [@Jacquernagy](#): > > I think this is a motto that everyone in this country, of all political stripes, seriously needs to internalize. > > You don’t have to be Hitler to be a shitty person. Something doesn’t have to be the Holocaust to be wrong. > > For fuck’s sake! Just let them be irrationally mad. If anything justified irrational rage, it is this. The federal government is literally ripping children from their mother’s arms as she pleads for asylum. Then we tell the mother that she will see her child again after the asylum hearing, which can take months…unless she wants to confess to immigration fraud in which case she will be immediately deported with her child…if we can find her child. Never again will I complain that I have to hold my nose to vote for the Democrat. I may still hold my nose but I won’t complain about it. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289/65 "2018-06-22T17:00:29Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > [According](https://www.justice.gov/eoir/page/file/fysb16/download#page=50)to the Department of Justice for never detained Aliens in 2015 44% did not show up in 2015 and 39% in 2016. That’s nice. But your claim is that 40% of people making asylum claims don’t show up for their hearing. That is false. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289/66 "2018-06-22T18:49:47Z")
I used to live just down the road from a Japanese detention camp in Wyoming, and I visited many times. After the war, the barracks were sold for $1 a building to anyone who’d haul one away. The garage in the first house we lived in there was one-half a barracks building. The construction was sturdy, but there was no insulation, no drywall or masonry. They were very cold in winter, especially before coal-burning stoves were added. And they were not large. A family in one partitioned area would be very cramped. But I think attempting a comparison based on physical conditions misses the point. The detainees in the relocation camps had their freedom, dignity, and property stolen from them. The children in the border detention centers have their freedom and their parents–there entire world, at that age–stripped from them. Hell is hell, whether it’s in a wooden barracks or a former WalMart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-the-children-concentration-camps-compare-to-the-japanese-camps/816289.md?page=3)