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Imagine you’re in a hotel room. It’s morning. The breakfast you ordered on the door-hang thingie has come. You sit down to your coffee and eggs and flip on CNN. Alisyn Camerota is on with a look of concern. “Once again,” she says, “we start with the latest from President Trump’s concentration camps. First let’s go to our round-the-clock team monitoring the situation in Dilley, Texas.”

Behind the split-screened correspondent is the outline of a complex. For you and millions of others, it has become the instantly recognizable symbol of an international crime: the barbed wire and stadium lights of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s South Texas Family Residential Center.

Your heart sinks as the field reporter recounts the latest updates: The deaths of a toddler and a teenager. Transgender, dis…