Nearly 150 scholars, many who teach about the Holocaust, urged the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to retract its recent statement rejecting comparisons of the situation at the US southern border to concentration camps
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"The very core of Holocaust education is to alert the public to dangerous developments that facilitate human rights violations and pain and suffering; pointing to similarities across time and space is essential for this task," the open letter reads, according to The New York Review of Books. "The Museum's decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical," the letter reads.
A rare look inside immigration detention 00:46The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found expired food and broken-down bathrooms during unannounced visits to four immigrant detention facilities in 2018, according to a report released Thursday.The report came amid a worsening situation along the US-Mexico border, where the number of migrants crossing the border illegally has surpassed previous years.
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