Worth noting that almost all of the internment camps were heavily fortified. Manzanar was surrounded by a five-strand barbed wire fence, eight guard towers, and patrolled by military police. The barracks were hastily constructed and were not properly sealed to keep the desert out. The Japanese language was banned and the wrong answer to a loyalty questionnaire got you sent to Tule Lake — a higher security detention camp. So while definitely not the same as what’s going on today, it was a new level of unconstitutional.
You've inspired me to write to both my CA senators on this issue. I am sick of all the purposeful FEAR being used to harm people legitimately doing an incredible amount of work & expense to come here to the USA, only to be treated as criminals. If our USA is having more immigration than our country can handle, that should be addressed. No criminals should be allowed. But from all that's been exposed the majority of immigrants are NOT criminals. We may have to lower the amount that our USA can handle, but we cannot lower our standards of being truthful & treating people honestly with due process
"Then and Now" = a great idea. Deeper context is something we haven't had much time to develop in the midst of the machine-gun barrage of Trump/Miller goonish policy decisions. Thank you for these minutes.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and involved the USA in WWII. While I hold no brief for the internment of Japanese nationals then, my Mother was an American national (born and raised in the Philippines) during WWII with no connection to Japan. She and her family were interned during that war (except for one sister attending school in the USA). Mother and her family were interned at Santo Thomas and at Los Banos. I rather think the conditions at those camps were less pleasant than those the Japanese Americans endured. They ALSO lost their property and livelihoods .
As has been said so often ... war is hell ... and who really wins?
Oh, and by the way, my father was, as he often said, "a guest of the Emperor of Japan" for the war (he was in the Army and survived the Bataan Death March).
I don't see the rationale for persecuting people living and working in our country today ... which is how I view the Trump/Miller agenda. There is simply no comparison. I find it disgusting.
The detainees now are not a security threat. It’s possible some Japanese might have been, though unlikely. There was also the issue of protection from violent anti-Japanese mobs which was a real thing.
The interned Japanese during WW2 had actual houses for families, and were not threatened with deportation to Japan or other countries. That is one big difference.
I agree with comment about the short format. I hope it becomes a trend..Too many substack videos seem to think that more is better. Everyone is talking about the same issues and there is not enough time to listen to them all.
The real comparison is to Nazi concentration camps. We have to call these “prisons” by their true names.
Worth noting that almost all of the internment camps were heavily fortified. Manzanar was surrounded by a five-strand barbed wire fence, eight guard towers, and patrolled by military police. The barracks were hastily constructed and were not properly sealed to keep the desert out. The Japanese language was banned and the wrong answer to a loyalty questionnaire got you sent to Tule Lake — a higher security detention camp. So while definitely not the same as what’s going on today, it was a new level of unconstitutional.
You've inspired me to write to both my CA senators on this issue. I am sick of all the purposeful FEAR being used to harm people legitimately doing an incredible amount of work & expense to come here to the USA, only to be treated as criminals. If our USA is having more immigration than our country can handle, that should be addressed. No criminals should be allowed. But from all that's been exposed the majority of immigrants are NOT criminals. We may have to lower the amount that our USA can handle, but we cannot lower our standards of being truthful & treating people honestly with due process
"Then and Now" = a great idea. Deeper context is something we haven't had much time to develop in the midst of the machine-gun barrage of Trump/Miller goonish policy decisions. Thank you for these minutes.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and involved the USA in WWII. While I hold no brief for the internment of Japanese nationals then, my Mother was an American national (born and raised in the Philippines) during WWII with no connection to Japan. She and her family were interned during that war (except for one sister attending school in the USA). Mother and her family were interned at Santo Thomas and at Los Banos. I rather think the conditions at those camps were less pleasant than those the Japanese Americans endured. They ALSO lost their property and livelihoods .
As has been said so often ... war is hell ... and who really wins?
Oh, and by the way, my father was, as he often said, "a guest of the Emperor of Japan" for the war (he was in the Army and survived the Bataan Death March).
I don't see the rationale for persecuting people living and working in our country today ... which is how I view the Trump/Miller agenda. There is simply no comparison. I find it disgusting.
Thanks for sharing that wartime story.
Just horrible. No one is safe.
The detainees now are not a security threat. It’s possible some Japanese might have been, though unlikely. There was also the issue of protection from violent anti-Japanese mobs which was a real thing.
This is the Sadest moment in our history. This is just one of issues that I have w tRump. It makes me actually want to cry for these people.
No, not the Japanese internment but Auschwitz’s
“This will be the issue for years to come.” Your statement sent shivers down my spine.
The interned Japanese during WW2 had actual houses for families, and were not threatened with deportation to Japan or other countries. That is one big difference.
I liked the short format -one issue, to the point and your cogent thoughts. Well done. I look forward to others like this. thanks.
I agree with comment about the short format. I hope it becomes a trend..Too many substack videos seem to think that more is better. Everyone is talking about the same issues and there is not enough time to listen to them all.
I agree with HM. I am more likely to listen to and learn from these five-minute, single issue discussions by smart, thoughtful people.