Three thoughts …

Auschwitz. Treblinka. Bergen-Belson. Russian gulags. Manzanar. Heart Mountain. Lincoln.

Wait, what? Lincoln?

Go ahead. Insist I’m overreacting. Being a drama queen. Hyperventilating on the hype. Getting my NIMBY on. Maybe I am. But the idea that a federal migrant detention camp would be built where I live — already reported as a possibility — comes with a stigma.

Nor would a camp in Omaha, Grand Island, North Platte or any place in Nebraska mitigate the mood. If Floridians want to embrace “Alligator Alcatraz,” the camp in the state’s swamps with the childishly cruel name, let them. But as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security searches for other detention camp sites, let’s hope Nebraska political leaders understand the long-term message such a place sends and the rep

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