OPINION — A woman at the Eloy Detention Center wrote a letter last year that a volunteer had to carry out past security. There was no other way to send it.
“I think I’m going to die in here,” she wrote. We don’t know her name. But what we call the kind of place that holds her — that, we can get right.
When Surprise residents call ICE’s local warehouse a concentration camp, they are told the comparison is overblown and they are trivializing history. That objection deserves a serious answer. The Holocaust was systematic, industrialized genocide. Those were death camps: facilities engineered for extermination. To invoke them carelessly would dishonor the dead.
