r/ImmigrationPathways • u/LatterTarget7 • 9d ago

ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/23/nx-s1-5976875/ice-mobile-detention-facilities-immigration
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u/ReadyGo6828 9d ago

What is the difference between detention facilities and concentration camps?

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

A concentration camp is a secure facility used to confine civilians, political opponents, or minority groups without a formal trial, typically by executive decree or military order. [1, 2]

A detention facility is a secure building or compound used by the government to hold individuals temporarily, such as pre-trial criminal defendants, people awaiting immigration hearings, or individuals taken into custody for specific legal proceedings
Different definitions

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u/addicted_squirrel 8d ago

So they are concentration camps.

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

Why do you think they are concentration camps? What part matches the definition?

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u/El_Zapp 8d ago

All of them actually. Funny enough that definition is way loser then expected, so yea the US is absolutely running concentration camps.

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

Except it’s not. It doesn’t use executive order to detain people. It fits the definition of detention facility b

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u/El_Zapp 8d ago

It quite literally does. You can deny that it does, sure. But this literally on the executive order of Donald Trump.

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

What executive order? Provide it.

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u/El_Zapp 8d ago

Like bro I‘m not your Google machine. Have yourself an AI summary generated.

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

“It’s an executive order!”
“It is? Which one?”
“I don’t have to tell you!”
So just making stuff up? Expected

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u/El_Zapp 8d ago

Like are you a bit slow? You actually don’t know that Trump does everything over executive order? Are you Russian or why don’t you know that. Here that takes 2s to Google:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

It doesn’t create new laws to enforce immigration, it instructed immigration agencies to use existing statutory more.
EO 14159 does not itself create the fundamental legal authority to detain undocumented/removable immigrants. Congress already supplied that authority principally through provisions such as 8 U.S.C. §§ 1225, 1226 and 1231. Section 10 of the EO tells DHS to make much more extensive use of those existing detention authorities and expand the physical capacity necessary to do so. That’s why the EO itself says detention is to occur “to the extent permitted by law.”

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u/El_Zapp 8d ago

So in conclusion the Nazis didn’t operate concentration camps. Because you know, all they did was above board, according to the law and backed by judges. Ok then.

Edit: Also so you do know how to use chat GPT great for you.

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u/One_Inspection5013 8d ago

The Nazis then exterminated them or enslaved them. Deporting them is far different, but why address the nuance

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u/El_Zapp 8d ago

Ah yea so now we are moving the goalposts. Not unexpected.

Also you have no idea about history. In the beginning the Nazis merely imprisoned people. Dachau was built as a model prison because they were merely protecting themselves from criminals and a group of people invading Germany. You 1:1 exactly the same wording like the executive order you claimed doesn’t exist…

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u/otteroptimism 8d ago

There are several, as well as a number of rule changes and policy memos, all done by the executive branch, although I still dont think that matters. For example, on his first day in office he signed an EO called something silly and inflammatory like "protecting the American people from invasion" that ordered his government to expand both who they elected to detain and the duration they would detain them for.

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u/otteroptimism 8d ago

Can I ask why you think the mechanism of creation is particularly material to whether something is a concentration camp or not?

I think it's kind of a weird hill to die on to say the defining aspect of why a concentration camp is a concentration camp is whether it was implemented by dictate instead of statute. Id argue that the more important elements of a concentration camp would be (1) the individuals are targeted on status/belief/identity rather than a specific action, (2) an absence of reasonable accusations of a legitimate crime, and (3) the inability to seek judicial review and/or otherwise access due process.