A Democratic congresswoman has given a scathing review of the Trump administration’s so-called ā€œAlligator Alcatrazā€ in Florida, describing it as an ā€œinternment campā€ that needs to be ā€œshut the hell down.ā€

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida’s 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility ā€œdon’t do it justiceā€ and that detainees were being ā€œpacked into cages.ā€

On Saturday Florida lawmakers from both parties took a state-arranged tour of the new 3,000-bed detention center that the state rapidly built on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland in the Everglades.

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    No, because words have meaning. People also died in the original concentration camps - they were still distinct from the extermination camps.

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        Auschwitz 1 was a concentration camp, Auschwitz 2 (Auschwitz-Birkenau) was an extermination camp

        Also please stop using the euphemisms the Nazis used. It’s an extermination camp.

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          Alligator Auschwitz will be an extermination camp, but the ā€œoopsie, the residents all died of heatstroke and dehydration, maybe they shouldn’t have been illegally entered the countryā€ kind.

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          Euphemisms are meaningless once the connotation settle in. No person alive in the modern civilization can heart the term ā€œconcentration campā€ and think ā€œoh, this is not so bad thenā€.