The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has criticized backlash to the opening of an immigration detention center at a former internment camp site as "deranged and lazy."

A DHS spokesperson in a statement to Newsweek hit out at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for the group's criticism of the Trump administration's plan to build an immigrant holding facility at Fort Bliss in Texas, which was among the sites used in World War II for internment of Japanese, German and Italian civilians.

"Comparisons of illegal alien detention centers to internment camps used during World War II are deranged and lazy," DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek in an email statement, in part.

Newsweek reached out to the ACLU via email on Friday afternoon fo

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