INTERNMENT CAMP Definition & Meaning

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internment camp

a prison camp for the confinement of prisoners of war, enemy aliens, political prisoners, etc.
a concentration camp for civilian citizens, especially those with ties to an enemy during wartime, as the camps established by the United States government to detain Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor attacks.

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First recorded in 1915–20

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It was last invoked in World War Two, when people of Japanese descent were imprisoned without trial and thousands sent to internment camps.

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Trump has promised to build internment camps for undocumented immigrants he has declared war against.

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Furutani said he didn’t even know there had been internment camps until he went to college.

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Rounding them by the millions and dumping them in internment camps would bring our economy to its knees.

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If elected, he also promised a militarized campaign of deportation that would entail arresting and detaining millions of people in internment camps.

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