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concentration camp
noun as in prison camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners
Example Sentences
Advisers have cautioned surrogates and allies to keep the charged term out of their remarks, Rolling Stone claims, to avoid “the concentration camps framing” that dogged Trump's campaign.
“It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It’s not going to be building concentration camps,” Tom Homan, a former acting director of ICE under Trump, said last month on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
Trump has publicly fantasized about a “bloody story” of mass deportations and concentration camps targeting Black and brown “illegal immigrants.”
Now he is invoking the Alien Enemies Act that was used to put Japanese Americans in concentration camps.
He recently held a rally in Aurora, Colorado where he pledged an even more aggressive deportation and concentration camp plan by invoking the Alien Enemies Act.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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