• Obinice@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    a. Temporarily concentrating a group of people together in a camp is still a concentration camp.

    b. Then why are the US getting involved and sending their own undesirables there? At best, this is a bad thing Panama are doing, and the US said “hey cool we wanna remove people from society too but don’t want to build our own concentration camps because that’d look bad, can we send them to yours pls?”

    • hakase@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      a. Sure, if we’re disingenuously ignoring the meanings and implications of words today for some reason.

      b. For the first part of this question, here’s a response I made elsewhere that addresses it:

      "The article doesn’t address that, so I’d be speculating, but if I had to guess, I’d say either:

      1. US authorities determined that Panama had some sort of culpability for the migrants entering the US - maybe they were lax in their policing of the Darien Gap, for example

      or, also quite likely given how much of a petty dick Trump is:

      1. Trump forced Panama specifically to take them as a show of power related to his threat to steal the Panama Canal."

      For the second part of your b. point, I don’t see a reason that this is a bad thing for Panama to do, even if it sucks that they’re the ones having to do it. This isn’t a concentration camp - it’s a temporary camp until the migrants can be repatriated.