Whatever we call them, wherever they are, detention centres are a disgrace | Kenan Malik

They may not be concentration camps, but conditions shame the US – and Europe

They are held in wire cages, with standing room only, sometimes for months. Adults have to wear the same clothes for weeks. Children have no washing facilities and sleep on bare concrete floors. Babies are fed from the same unwashed bottle for days. Children as young as four months are separated from their parents. Some are never reunited.

The detention centres to hold undocumented migrants on America’s southern border are a moral abomination. But are they “concentration camps”?

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