tender-age camp

Geoff Nunberg went to the mike and professed himself shocked that everyone had paid so little attention to the ghastly government euphemism tender-age shelter (also tender-age camp, tender-age facility, and other variants), applied to the places in three towns about 300 miles outside Houston where migrant children separated from families that crossed the Mexican border are being interned.

Can a Word Capture the Zeitgeist of a Year? No. Maybe. Yes It Can. John Moore, Getty Images 2019