Japanese Americans Slam Plans To Detain Migrant Kids In Internment Camps
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING After the Trump administration announced last week that it will be detaining undocumented immigrant children apprehended at the border at a former World War II-era Japanese American incarceration camp, Japanese American groups are speaking out. Several organizations have slammed the administration’s move to place migrant children at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, where an estimated 700 Japanese Americans were held following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “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. “Fort Sill is the site of multiple historical traumas, and this latest plan to incarcerate migrant children at this site is part of a much larger system of white supremacist violence,” Ikeda said.
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