Prepared for arrest: Japanese-Americans protest at Fort Sill over incoming migrant children
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https://www.duncanbanner.com/news/prepared-for-arrest-japanese-americans-protest-at-fort-still-over/article_789070aa-9542-11e9-8107-9fcd6387dce9.htmlFORT SILL — A demonstration protesting “unjust incarceration” of immigrants ended without incident or arrest following military police’s insistence the event be moved off base property.
Approximately 25 people — World War II Japanese-American internment camp survivors, their descendants and others — planned to hold a news conference outside this Army base near Lawton, Oklahoma.
The group — Tsuru for Solidarity — were protesting a plan to temporarily house up to 5,000 unaccompanied children through Sept. 30.
“Seventy-five years ago, 120,000 of us were removed from our homes and forcibly incarcerated in prison camps across the country,” said Dr. Satsuki Ina, who held a sign with a photo of her as a child in a WWII internment camp. “We’re here today to protest the repetition of history.”
Ina said she was among those held in “American concentration camps” under indefinite detention.
“We were without due process of law; we were charged without any evidence of being a threat to national security; that we were an ‘unassimilable race’; that we were a threat to the economy,” Ina said.
She said those exact words are being repeated today regarding “innocent people seeking asylum in this country.”
“Unlike 1942, when America turned their backs on us while we were disappearing from our homes, our schools, our farms and our jobs — we’re here today to speak out, to protest the unjust incarceration of innocent people seeking refuge in this country,” Ina said.
“We stand with them and we say, ‘Stop repeating history.'"
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Those folks where United States citizens!
Not true
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I & World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
With the US entry into World War I, German nationals were automatically classified as "enemy aliens." Two of the four main World War I-era internment camps were located in Hot Springs, N.C. and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer wrote that "All aliens interned by the government are regarded as enemies, and their property is treated accordingly."
By the time of WWII, the United States had a large population of ethnic Germans. Among residents of the United States in 1940, more than 1.2 million persons had been born in Germany, 5 million had two native-German parents, and 6 million had one native-German parent. Many more had distant German ancestry. During WWII, the United States detained at least 11,000 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals. The government examined the cases of German nationals individually, and detained relatively few in internment camps run by the Department of Justice, as related to its responsibilities under the Alien and Sedition Acts. To a much lesser extent, some ethnic German US citizens were classified as suspect after due process and also detained. Similarly, a small proportion of Italian nationals and Italian Americans were interned in relation to their total population in the US. The United States had allowed immigrants from both Germany and Italy to become naturalized citizens, which many had done by then. In the early 21st century, Congress considered legislation to study treatment of European Americans during WWII, but it did not pass the House of Representatives. Activists and historians have identified certain injustices against these groups.
President Woodrow Wilson issued two sets of regulations on April 6, 1917, and November 16, 1917, imposing restrictions on German-born male residents of the United States over the age of 14. The rules were written to include natives of Germany who had become citizens of countries other than the U.S.; all were classified as aliens. Some 250,000 people in that category were required to register at their local post office, to carry their registration card at all times, and to report any change of address or employment. The same regulations and registration requirements were imposed on females on April 18, 1918. Some 6,300 such aliens were arrested. Thousands were interrogated and investigated. A total of 2,048 were incarcerated for the remainder of the war in two camps, Fort Douglas, Utah, for those west of the Mississippi, and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for those east of the Mississippi.
