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“I feel obligated to speak out, although it’s not a favorite subject,” he said. They were helpless against dust storms that seeped inside. Today, Kashiwagi, 94, is a poet and writer in San Francisco who speaks to the public about life at Tule Lake, a maximum security camp near the Oregon border. The family ate the chickens at night to supplement meals. She stored the bottled birds in sturdy sacks to take on the trip. He remembers slaughtering his prized chickens- New Hampshire Reds- for his mother to cook with soy sauce and sugar. Hiroshi Kashiwagi was 19 when his family was ordered from their home in Northern California’s Placer County and to a temporary detention center.

Photo courtesy of Dorothea Lange/Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection/Library of Congress/Reuters Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Cvili Control station in San Francisco, in this April 1942 handout photo.

“Although the threat of terrorism is real, we must learn from our history and not allow our fears to overwhelm our values,” the statement read in part. The Japanese American Citizens League “vehemently” objected to executive orders signed by Trump last month, to build a wall along the Mexican border, punish “sanctuary” cities that protect people living in the country illegally, and limit refugees and immigrants from entering the country. Japanese-American lawmakers expressed horror when a Donald Trump supporter cited the camps as precedent for a Muslim registry. The groups say this White House has what they see as the same dangerous and flippant attitude toward the Constitution. citizens were incarcerated and the Constitution violated. Her organization, the Japanese American Citizens League and others oppose the use of the word “internment.” They say the government used euphemisms such as “internment,” ”evacuation,” and “non-alien” to hide the fact that U.S. Her mother, a teenager at the time, said she didn’t remember details. government had incarcerated her mother, aunts and grandparents. Tonai was shocked to learn in middle school that the U.S. Photo courtesy of Ansel Adams/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-A35-4-M-10/Reuters People are loading a bus for relocation heading to the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, in this 1943 handout photo. We know a president who is going to see people in a way that could victimize us,” said Ina, a 72-year-old psychotherapist who lives in Oakland, California.

We know what the mood of the country can be. Trump said at a news conference Thursday that he would issue a replacement order next week. In January, Trump banned travelers from seven majority Muslim nations from entering the U.S., saying he wanted to thwart potential attackers from slipping into the country. READ NEXT: All of the changes to Trump’s executive order on immigration, explained They’re alarmed by recent executive orders from President Donald Trump that limit travel and single out immigrants. Two-thirds were citizens.Īnd now, as survivors commemorate the 75th anniversary of the executive order that authorized their incarceration, they’re also speaking out to make sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Muslims, Latinos or other groups. Thousands were elderly, disabled, children or infants too young to know the meaning of treason. Roughly 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were sent to desolate camps that dotted the West because the government claimed they might plot against the U.S. citizens forced from their home without due process and locked up for years following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. SAN FRANCISCO - Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S.