The Heart of Darkness 1: Concentration Camps Make a Big Comeback.

If you were horrified by President Trump's idea to build concrete walls along vulnerable sections of the Mexican border, then you, as Americans themselves say it, ain't seen nothing yet. In fact, you are in for a real shock, in the far more eerie specter of concentration camps springing up in the hot sands of Texas, close to the proposed walls.
Recent days have seen children of illegal immigrants being separated from their families and taken to detention facilities converted from warehouses and defunct supermarkets while their parents and other accompanying adults are sent to jail awaiting trial under laws extant, or non-extant, that criminalize illegal entry or immigration into the US. This family splitting now seems a cardinal focus of what has been dubbed Trump's 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy. Reports have it that all available spaces have been filled up and plastic tents erected for the same purposes are springing up in the deserts of Texas where temperatures more ruthless than humans can reach 105F. In a recent six-week period there had been more than 2000 family separations and officials are planning to build more tent cities to house these innocent children. We are describing these shelters as detention and processing facilities only out of literary politeness and deference to the taste of our readers. Actualities are grimmer. Representative Peter Welch has made a visit to one of such centers in Brownsville, Texas, and in a tweet, described harrowing images of boys being held in chain  link cages. It held more than1500 boys sitting and staring vacantly in space in what used to be a Walmart. If this is not the description of a concentration camp, we don't know what it is. The good Peter was very prompt in slamming the zero-tolerance policy as zero humanity with zero logic in it.
His is just a bellow in a stridently growing outrage. An indignation so loud and obstreperous that the normally reticent First Lady, Melania Trump, has chipped in with her serious concerns. No woman is ever going to stay undisturbed seeing children being violently torn from their parents. And Laura Bush, wife of ex Republican President G. W. Bush has wasted no time in comparing the unfolding situation to Japanese American internment in the 2nd World War. One of the most dire episodes of the war. Even such frightening reminiscence will hardly do justice to a concentration camp filled with innocent children languishing under conditions that easily stop the heart. Trump has often been compared to Adolf Hitler and there seems to be more than just mere mischief in the dovetailing images now. It is difficult seeing how Trump can get away with this. Maybe in politics where fortunes are so inconstant but morally, the guy has overplayed his hand.
We have it on good authority that conditions in these camps are not all that cozier than what subsisted in Nazi extermination camps or British-built Boer concentration camps in South Africa. Perhaps not many people have noticed that it is in the most advanced countries at a point in time that we find the cruelest methods to run the most deranged of policies. In no time, barbed wire fences and watchtowers are going to spring up in those detention facilities as the situation grows desperate and you wouldn't think the US will be the place to see such horror in this post-internet age, would you? The mightiest, the richest, the supposedly most civilized nation on earth. Man seems to be climbing out of a deep, deep, dark abyss and no matter how much he has achieved, he really cannot tear himself free of his eerie, primordial beginnings