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The more things change: "What Makes a Concentration Camp?" July 23, 1979 story in the L.A. Times about people objecting to Japanese American internment camps being called "concentration camps." 
The L.A. Times has a pretty long history of readers writing in to complain that the Japanese American detention camps were not that bad. From March 12, 1995:
And now, from three days ago:
If I were to sum up what's going on, "concentration camp" has historically been used to describe a wide range of conditions (some of which would clearly include our border camps), and the term has not been unanimously retired as a description of 20th-century European death camps.
And a lot of the tension over the control of the definition right now is between people who want to use the term to directly connect the present to the past, and those who don't, for a variety of reasons.
