Semantics

It's not that semantics aren't important; they are important.  I just think that all of the world's people who are starving and being tortured and murdered would appreciate it if we who have the time to argue about semantics wouldn't take weeks, months or years to have those arguments in lieu of alleviating their pain.

My feeling is that "concentration camp" describes a place which has the intention of torturing and killing people.  If I'm not understanding the word correctly, then I apologize, but that's the meaning it has always had for me.  I believe that the detention centers at the border are inadequate and that people are living in bad conditions, and that not everyone who works there is telling the truth about how those people are being treated.  That's a bad situation, but it's not a concentration camp.

President Trump shouldn't have said what he said, and he shouldn't be defending it now.  There is also only so much needling of a person that you can do before you hit a nerve and something exits the person's mouth that shouldn't.  You don't need to target the nerve, elicit a reaction and then have several press conferences about it.