Japanese American groups are criticizing the Trump regime for planning to lock up undocumented immigrant children grabbed at the border in one of the nation’s several incarceration camps set up to hold Japanese Americans during World War II. About 117,000 Japanese immigrants, most of whom were U.S. citizens, eventually were detained at 10 specially built camps and at Ft. Sill. Each of the camps held thousands of detainees except Ft. Sill, where about 700 were held.
A fight ensured over the matter between officials at the Department of Justice, which opposed relocation and incarceration on civil liberties grounds and officials at the Department of War. Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy said that the Constitution was “just a scrap of paper.”
Kimberley Lam at the HuffPost writes—Japanese Americans Slam Plans To Detain Migrant Kids In Internment Camps:
“The prolonged detention of migrant children is a practice that must be a critical concern for all Americans,” Mitchell Maki, president and CEO of Japanese American history nonprofit Go For Broke National Education Center, told HuffPost. “If we are to be the beacon of hope and a model of humanity for the rest of the world, we must do a much better job of quickly placing these children in socially appropriate, humane surroundings.”
The facility will serve as a “temporary emergency influx shelter” to accommodate the “dramatic spike” in unaccompanied minors detained by border officials this year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho, an organization that preserves Japanese-American history, reminded HuffPost that the facility has a dark history.
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On this date at Daily Kos in 2003—It’s a quagmire:
Things are going from bad to worse, and we don't even have a full-fledged guerilla war on our hands yet.
In another violence-wracked day, another U.S soldier was killed, while US troops shot two protesters dead.
Protesters throwing stones at military convoys. Massive crowds protesting the US occupation. Temperatures in the 110s. Out of work, desperate former Iraqi soldiers. Heavy-handed US tactics. Lack of basic services.
With these ingredients, is it really surprising that we have lost 52 soldiers since Bush's GI Joe moment on the USS Lincoln?
Update: Jesus, two more What's distressing is that these attacks will further embolden future attacks, as the mighty, invincible American military machine exposes its weaknesses.
Against a set foe, there is little any enemy can do against US military hardware and cash. But against guerrilla fighters, our guys are nothing more than sitting ducks.
And the worst part is, we have seen NOTHING to justify this war. Not even "freedom" -- it's clear that Iraqis do not have any freedom of protest, lest they're willing to brave a facefull of bullets. Freedom to choose their own government? Not going to happen. A free press? No way.
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today’s Kagro in the Morning show:
It turns out there’s no slowdown in Congressional impeachment interest after all. Because what's the point of being in a powerless Congress? Today we fill in the gaps in that "take care" clause discussion, because it, too, argues for impeachment.