TRUMP SOMETHING SOMETHING CONCENTRATION CAMPS!!!!!1111

"Call Immigration Detention Centers What They Are: Concentration Camps," by Jonathan M. Katz,  is an embarrassment for the LA Times. [I removed the link; you can search for it if you like, but I don't want to help them get clicks.]
   We've moved past the bizarre Walls are immoral and more-or-less right to If you enforce the border you are literally Hitler.
   That nonsense isn't worth a response, but I'll respond anyway. First, by 'concentration camp' most Americans mean murder camp. There's a difference, but it's typically not recognized. Katz probably realizes that. He probably aims to exploit that association. Obviously the detention centers aren't murder camps. But they aren't concentration camps, either--not even strictly speaking. (Katz basically argues that they are, technically speaking; but he's even wrong about that.) And Trump's not Hitler by any stretch of the imagination.
Here's some hysteria from the piece:

   It is important to note that Trump’s aides have built this system of racist terror on something that has existed for a long time. Several camps opened under Obama, and as president he deported millions of people.
   But Trump’s game is different. It certainly isn’t about negotiating immigration reform with Congress. Trump has made it clear that he wants to stifle all non-white immigration, period. His mass arrests, iceboxes and dog cages are part of an explicitly nationalist project to put the country under the control of the right kind of white people.
   As a Republican National Committee report noted in 2013: “The nation’s demographic changes add to the urgency of recognizing how precarious our position has become.” The Trump administration’s attempt to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census was also just revealed to have been a plot to disadvantage political opponents and boost “Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites” all along.
   That’s why this isn’t just a crisis facing immigrants. When a leader puts people in camps to stay in power, history shows that he doesn’t usually stop with the first group he detains.
   There are now at least 48,000 people detained in ICE facilities, which a former official told BuzzFeed News “could swell indefinitely.” Customs and Border Protection officials apprehended more than 144,000 people on the Southwest border last month. (The New York Times dutifully reported this as evidence of a “dramatic surge in border crossings,” rather than what it was: The administration using its own surge of arrests to justify the rest of its policies.

Right, so, we have a generous immigration system, but people are pouring illegally across our border anyway. Our only options--given that we don't have enough fencing--are either to (a) just let 'em pour in, or (b) put them in our overtaxed detention centers. We're not rounding people up on the basis of their race and sticking them in camps. They're coming here. Illegally. They have certain racial characteristics in common--but that's who's coming in illegally via that route. It's not like we're picking them out. If a bunch of Finns come sneaking across, they'll end up in detention, too. It's a lie--a hysterical lie--to say that "Trump has made it clear that he wants to stifle all non-white immigration, period." It's unhinged. As is calling this a "system of racist terror."
Here's Don Surber (via Instapundit) on argumentum ad Hilterum and Republican presidents and presidential candidates. Spoiler alert: they're all literally Hitler.