Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:
“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”
But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:
“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”
Had my dad literally and unironically say “yeah but that stuff isn’t going to matter to us cuz we live in a small town, there’s only trouble in the big cities.”
My father in christ what do you think will happen if the single grocery store in your small town doesn’t get shipments anymore from the “big city”? Idk. They just think everything can crumble around them but they’ll be untouched.