Joe Scarborough Says Trump’s ‘Savage’ ICE Centers ‘More Extreme’ Than WWII ‘Internment Camps’ | EUROtoday

“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough unleashed on President Donald Trump’s “savage” ICE detention facilities and in contrast them to the jail camps that Japanese Americans had been pressured into throughout World War II.

“You have so many things going on here,” Scarborough stated Tuesday of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. “First of all, just the savage treatment that so many of these detainees are getting, that we get reports out of a man from Northern Ireland who was held there for months and months, basically said it was like a concentration camp.”

He continued, “You have other stories of abuse, lights on around the clock, just the most savage, inhumane conditions in some of these facilities.”

The MS Now host known as out the Department of Homeland Security for repeatedly “lying” to Americans.

“You have DHS, who has lied to Americans time and time and time again. They’ve lied over and over and over again,” he continued. “So who is going to believe DHS? Who is going to believe ICE when they are lying about the conditions that so many of these detainees are being held in? Nobody! The answer is nobody! And yet it continues. And not only that, it expands.”

After decrying that the ICE camps are “not detention centers” however quite “industrialized internment camps,” the previous politician declared that he want to invite a historian to return to the studio to “compare” the circumstances.

“I really would like a historian to come on and compare Japanese [American] internment camps of the 1940s to the condition in these internment camps, because I think this may be even more extreme than those internment camps, based on what history I’ve read so far,” Scarborough stated.

Calling the Trump administration’s ICE camps “absolutely savage,” he added, “It’s on an industrial scale. It’s un-American. There’s no transparency, and in the state of Michigan, DHS literally killed a Toyota parts plant from coming in that would have created jobs for working Americans.”

“How screwed up are these priorities?” he added.

Scarborough’s remarks comply with the Trump administration quickly increasing the variety of ICE camps and rising arrests and detentions nationwide throughout Trump’s second time period. One of the brand new camps was constructed at Fort Bliss in Texas, a transfer criticized by Japanese American teams as a result of the bottom was additionally used to incarcerate members of their neighborhood throughout World War II.

There have been innumerable stories describing inhumane circumstances within the camps because the variety of people incarcerated has practically doubled over the previous 12 months amid Trump’s immigration crackdown.