Trump's new immigration order would essentially jail migrant families in internment camps

...Trump's order has direct parallels to the last time our government interned Americans of a particular ethnicity.

His order also carries with it extensive rhetoric from Trump and his administration about a nebulous 'threat' which he's been repeatedly claiming is inherent in migrants coming from Mexico - much like he insisted his Muslim ban directed at selected countries was a national security measure against a nebulous threat Trump claimed was inherent in immigrants and refugees from those nations he arbitrarily cut off from entry into the US.

More glaring, NYT confirmed today that Trump has requested the U.S. military set up what are basically internment camps to hold as many as 20,000 children:

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update 6/22: Trump is asking the Pentagon to spend $1 billion to build militarized tent cities with the capacity to detain an additional 119,000 people

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They are internment camps, because they are meant to hold individuals - children, possibly entire families) of one particular ethnic group. His border policy is the direct product of open bigotry and racism by the president of the United States, aimed squarely at Mexican migrants.

Jailing people for misdemeanors is cruel enough, but Trump is asking the military to set up internment camps to hold people whose only offense was seeking to enter the country for all opportunities of refuge and care. Moreover, jailing children apart from their families is a cruelty which even Japanese families weren't forced to endure in their own abominable ordeal.

"At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents," actor George Takei wrote on Tuesday. “We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves."

“I cannot for a moment imagine what my childhood would have been like had I been thrown into a camp without my parents. That this is happening today fills me with both rage and grief: rage toward a failed political leadership who appear to have lost even their most basic humanity, and a profound grief for the families affected.”

This is immoral, and very likely highly illegal. Make no mistake. No matter how civil society may look in your neighborhood, a fascist state is quickly forming and using the power of government to deliberately injure people who pose no collective threat to the nation at all - our government lashing out with lawlessness and inhumanity - assaulting these families seeking refuge for their supporters' perverse goal of staving off a rising, non-white population.

It's a war waged by Trump against the sum of his own fears and antipathies. It's a war waged by our government which threatens to engulf each and every one of us in Trump's battle against his paranoid apparitions.