Letter to the Editor: Calling border detention facilities ‘concentration camps’ is offensive

To the Editor:

Concentration camps. These words come so easily today from people who are opposed to our country’s policies and our President. To me, these vile words conjure up the World War II Holocaust and the millions of people Hitler’s German henchman massacred. This phrase does not have anything to do with the illegal immigrant situation we currently face, and the holding areas on our southern border, or our President.

Anyone who equates this phrase with them or him is just as ignorant as someone who believes that the horrid World War II race exterminations that occurred years ago in Europe, are happening here in our country. By continuing to compare the two, all of you are disrespecting the many victims who so violently and inhumanely lost their lives during this mass slaughter, and you disrespect their families, our country’s law enforcement, and of course, your favorite adversary, President Trump.
The biggest difference between those ‘extermination camps’ and the detention centers we have today to contain the mass flow of illegals inundating our country and straining its resources?

The Jewish people, the Poles, and all the other Holocast victims had no choice, they were forced into death camps.

The immigrants at our southern border are willingly, but illegally, crossing our borders, and could have just easily prevented their crisis by walking in the opposite direction!
God bless our President and the U.S.A.

Ray Roginski
Corbin