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a. Sure, if we're disingenuously ignoring the meanings and implications of words today for some reason.

b. For the first part of this question, here's a response I made elsewhere that addresses it:

"The article doesn’t address that, so I’d be speculating, but if I had to guess, I’d say either:

1. US authorities determined that Panama had some sort of culpability for the migrants entering the US - maybe they were lax in their policing of the Darien Gap, for example

or, also quite likely given how much of a petty dick Trump is:

2. Trump forced Panama specifically to take them as a show of power related to his threat to steal the Panama Canal."

For the second part of your b. point, I don't see a reason that this is a bad thing for Panama to do, even if it sucks that they're the ones having to do it. This isn't a concentration camp - it's a temporary camp until the migrants can be repatriated.

You would do well as a talking head on a Twitter-like.

The conditions don't seem all that poor for a temporary holding camp in Panama for people who will be leaving the country shortly, so as long as this doesn't become a more permanent situation, I don't think it's infringing on anyone's dignity, and I have no problem with it whatsoever.

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What? Of course it's humane - all of their needs are being met, and they're only there temporarily.

And yes, if I entered another country illegally, I would fully expect to be locked up until I could be repatriated, whether in a jail cell or a cage, and they would be fully justified in doing so.

Extended detainment in a cage might eventually become inhumane though, so if against all odds this setup isn't temporary, then yeah, I'd probably agree that it's inhumane.

Panama all but made it clear that they don't even want these migrants in the first place - why on earth would they then imprison them permanently on their soil at significant cost and potential political backlash now that they're out of the US's jurisdiction?

Like, it's obviously possible that's the case, but I can't see a reason to do so that makes any sense.

From the article (thanks @[email protected]) it's completely clear that:

a. This is just a temporary holding camp until the illegal migrants can be repatriated back to their original countries

b. This isn't even a US camp - it's a Panamanian camp - so if you want to be mad about the unconfirmed conditions of the camp, you should be mad at Panama

c. This is in no way a concentration camp, and divisive, intentionally inflammatory one-liners like this from talking heads on Twitter-likes continue to be the bane of public discourse.