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The web site Learn Progress published an article in January 2017 reporting that President Trump was building concentration camps in the United States: This article was based on an executive order signed by President Trump on 25 January 2017. That order did include a provision regarding the construction of more detention centers along the U.S.-Mexican border, but the headline of Learn Progress' article placed the term Concentration Camps in quotes, making it seemed as if the detention centers were to be something new and (onerously) different on the American landscape. President Trump's executive order would not create the United States' first detention centers for immigrants. As of this writing, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operate 111 detention facilities in the United States, many of which are situated along the U.S.-Mexican border: Although labeling such detention facilities as concentration camps is problematic (for many the term conjures up images of the inhumane treatment, torture, and murder that took place in such camps established by Nazi-era Germany), the United States has been criticized for the reported treatment of detainees in American facilities:
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