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Suggested Letter to Congress About Southern Border Detention Camps

An O.H.M. reader wrote this letter to her congressperson. I think it’s a good idea if others do the same, so I thought I’d share it:

Dear [Congress person],

I am writing to urge you to 1) educate yourself to more fully understand the depth of the mistreatment of human beings happening at the southern U.S. border while in U.S. custody, and 2) to do something about these inhuman conditions, because you are in a position of power to do so. If you have already taken steps toward #1, it is unimaginable how you could not be compelled to take steps toward #2.

Setting aside the symbolic significance of using a former WW2 Japanese internment camp in the United States to detain human beings in the 21st century, the willful, systematic mistreatment of human beings by the United States on U.S. soil is wrong. It ignores the lessons of the 20th century, learned painfully and over too much time, that it is immoral and extremely dangerous for governments to use their power against any human being, let alone innocent civilians and children, in this way. It is not acceptable to treat some human beings like they are less than human, in order to make the majority feel more comfortable. It is immoral to treat prisoners in these ways, even if they have committed terrible crimes and display anti-social behavior. 

It is therefore that much more heinous to treat people who have not committed crimes in the same way or worse, and even more so for young women, children, and babies. And it is difficult to imagine the level of trauma and pain that someone who is a refugee, fleeing a country in which they are not safe from violence on a day to day basis, that they otherwise consider home and likely did not leave without considerable reason to do so, compounded by the inhuman treatment of the country that ostensibly welcomes immigrants and was founded on the values of freedom, tolerance and opportunity, to intern human beings and then to take further steps to shield these internment camps and the mistreatment of these human beings from the press and the general public.

I ask you to reflect on your own family history: when and how did your family arrive in the United States? Did they emigrate from a country where they faced any form of persecution, lack of economic opportunity, or otherwise did not see a bright future for themselves? Mine did, from several different countries. Some of my ancestors came from Ireland, a country (and not even at that time its own country) that faced a devastating famine, and for whom the exodus of the population became a "scourge" of unwanted immigrants to the United States in the 19th century. 

Amazingly, while Irish immigrants were generally not treated well, from exclusion from work opportunities to overcrowded and unsanitary housing, they were not detained for weeks at a time and interned and denied food, heat, clothing, medical care, and other basic necessities. Perhaps the conditions at Ellis Island were comparable, particularly those who were quarantined if they were considered disease carriers. But this was also almost two centuries ago.

This needs to stop. We are on a path toward another atrocity, committed in peace time against those who do not pose a credible threat to our nation, that our children and grandchildren will struggle to understand and ask why all of us did nothing while it happened. I don't know what to do or how to stop this, so the very least I can do is express my outrage and sadness to those who are in a position to do something.

I should not have to state, but I am stating loud and clear, that I do not support internment and systematic treatment of human beings, but I am stating it now because it appears that nothing is being done, and that no one cares enough to make this stop. If we do not stop this, we will have lessened ourselves as a nation and as a people, doubly so because we did not learn the first time, when we interned our own citizens because of their race. 

The wars and atrocities of the 20th century, which we as a nation fought against but also perpetrated ourselves, should have taught all human beings on earth that mass destruction of our species is never that far away, and the worst forces in our nature must be kept in check as we continue to develop technologies and systems to commit atrocities on a grand scale.

In closing, I urge you to fully understand what is happening at the border, because to understand it even at a basic level and from a distance is sufficient information to understand that it is wrong, and it is un-American. 

Please do something. Please stop the systematic mistreatment of human beings on U.S. soil, and act more worthy of the century we live in now, to show that we have learned even one small lesson from our profound mistakes that define the 20th century.

Cedar Attanasio / AP

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