Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants
The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.
A Racist Purge Almost Destroyed My Family. Another One Is Coming.
If Trump issues his own order on Day 1, as he’s vowed, the first people could enter detention camps by February.
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Bay Area Japanese Americans Draw on WWII Trauma to Resist Deportation Threats
President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...
Opinion: Internment camps destroyed lives, yet one local man still gave back to this country
If you called Jack Kubota happy go lucky, you’d be half right.  At age 95, Kubota is a happy man, but his luck ran out during ...
Pierce County Council starts new year with Democrat majority. Meet the two new members
New members’ appointments make history: it’s the first time a Latina woman and a man of Japanese descent have served on the ...
Commentary: Federal workers may soon face moral dilemmas. Here’s what they can learn from history
With radical policy shifts looming in Donald Trump’s new administration, many federal employees are surely debating a ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned in WWII
Working with Ancestry.com and FamilySearch ... even though there was never any factual basis for suspecting the Japanese American community of wholesale disloyalty. In 1986, she testified before ...
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‘This is historic’: Oregon swears in first female Japanese American lawmaker
I am a third-generation Japanese American whose ancestors have been ... make history by becoming the first woman of Japanese ancestry to join the Oregon state legislature. We look forward to ...
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Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II
Working with Ancestry.com and FamilySearch ... even though there was never any factual basis for suspecting the Japanese American community of wholesale disloyalty. In 1986, she testified before ...