
Concentration Camps Are Back, So Let's Talk About Their History
Behind the Bastards
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The World Cup Winners of Putting People in Camps
In May of 2012, less than a thousand people traveling as families were caught by border patrol. By May of 2014, that number had increased to 12,800. The numbers have subsided since then, less than I think 10,000 last year. But it's still a big issue. And this is not something that we've ever like illegal immigration has been a thing that has happened for forever. Families coming as groups is a new thing. They're largely coming because of political instability. You could call them refugees, although we call them asylum seekers. Whether or not someone's a asylum seeker or refugee depends on the country of origin. This became politicized and talked about by Republicans as
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