con·cen·tra·tion camp/ˌkänsənˈtrāSHən ˈˌkamp/nounnoun: concentration camp; plural noun: concentration camps a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45..Other than not being linked with Nazis or genocide, those camps along the border are, by definition, concentration camps.