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NEW: From the Filipino annexation to Japanese-American incarceration, concentration camps in the U.S. aren't anything new. thinkprogress.org/this-isnt-the-… 
During the U.S.-Filipino War, which has been all but wiped from American collective memory, Secretary of War Elihu Root cited American "concentration camps" as reason for U.S. success against the Filipino independence movement:
One American officer called the U.S. concentration camps in the Philippines a "suburb of hell." We still don't know how many died there.
One of the main American architects of the concentration camp policy eventually became the U.S. Army chief of staff. thinkprogress.org/this-isnt-the-…
One of the main American architects of the concentration camp policy eventually became the U.S. Army chief of staff. thinkprogress.org/this-isnt-the-…
During and after WWII, American leaders—FDR, Truman, other White House officials—referred to the the camps forcibly holding Japanese-Americans as "concentration camps."
Some of the most white supremacist politicians across the American West—Idaho's governor, for instance—also referred to the American WWII camps as "concentration camps." thinkprogress.org/this-isnt-the-…
And there are the state memorials—at Tule Lake, at Manzanar—specifically calling the Japanese-American WWII camps "concentration camps."
One other historical add: The US’s Japanese-American camp at Tule Lake, CA, was “undoubtedly [the] most fortified city… in the Western Hemisphere” during WWII. thinkprogress.org/this-isnt-the-…
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From 2015: ‘ICE's misguided effort to build child-friendly prison camps repeats the inhumanity that the U.S. government inflicted on Japanese-American families during World War II.’ aclu.org/blog/smart-jus…
