American Tradition?
Relocation of native populations.
Reservations.
Relocation in times of war.
Internment.
Relocation of detainees.
Presidential orders bordering on inhumanity.
Concentration camps.
There is nothing time honored about any of this.
Internment of undesirables, from Native Americans to Japanese Americans, was wrong, but that doesn’t mean the tradition doesn’t continue in the United States, as seen in the continued incarceration of detainees, particularly children at the US southern border, under conditions that are unacceptable and, more importantly, inhumane.
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The Reluctant Poet 