Jake Tapper Stunned As Minnesota Business Owner Suggests ICE Agents Could Start ‘Putting People In O

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Jake Tapper Stunned As Minnesota Business Owner Suggests ICE Agents Could Start ‘Putting People In Ovens’

Mariane Angela
News Reporter
January 23, 2026 11:13 PM ET

A Minnesota business owner left CNN host Jake Tapper stunned Friday after he compared federal immigration enforcement’s detention facilities to concentration camps.

A handful of Minnesota businesses closed to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, including Moon Palace Books, whose co-owner Jamie Schwesnedl appeared on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” Tapper pushed back during the interview after the Minnesota business owner used the term “concentration camp” to describe immigration detention facilities, saying the phrase carries a specific historical meaning.

“Just one note, I’m not here to defend ICE, but I’m not a big fan of people using the term ‘concentration camp’ to describe detention camps. That has a very specific meaning,” Tapper said.

Schwesnedl responded.

“I understand that, but they take people to Fort Snelling here, which literally was built as a concentration camp, and Alligator Alcatraz, which I think we can all agree is a concentration camp. I’m not saying they’re Dachau. I’m not saying they’re putting people in ovens — yet — but these are concentration camps. I don’t need to argue with you about that,” Schwesnedl said.

Prior to that conversation, Schwesnedl claimed Minneapolis had been “invaded by masked gunmen” sending neighbors to “concentration camps.”

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[Smokin Joe]

Nothing like hyperbolic delusion to get them through their day.

Of course they wouldn't put them in ovens.

Alligators gotta eat, too.  (/s)

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually concentration camp means exactly what it says.  We’ve let again, a singular event distort what a phrase means.

It means concentrating something in an encampment.  That’s all.  Technically the Jap camps were concentration camps.  They were called internment camps instead.

All it means is putting people in a camp for some kind of control.  It could be sick people all kept in one place.  The other stuff of killing and even working as in slaves is tack-on due to associating that with NAZI camps.

[Kamaji]