History: America's internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII is taught today as an example of failure of constitutional checks and balances of US Government.

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."