Seattle Art murals have been tainted for the second time this year
A mural depicting the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II in Seattle’s Chinatown International District has been destroyed again.
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FORT BLISS, Texas – Americans from Japanese Heritage say they hear the reaction of forced forced control of their families at the Trump administration’s latest immigration detention scene.
Homeland Security officials say President Donald Trump’s drastic U.S. deportation campaign requires accumulation of detention centers to close the gap between arrests and removals. They relied on US military and civilian contractors to get the job done, including building the nation’s largest immigration detention site at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
However, Japanese-American history managers, including the children and grandchildren of those detained, have criticised the use of Fort Bliss and plans to expand immigration detention at American military bases.
Fort Bliss was the “gear” of Japanese forced machines in the United States, said Brian Nya, historian and content director for Denshaw, a nonprofit that records the internment of Japanese-Americans.
Niiya’s own grandfather, the editor of the Japanese newspaper, was arrested on December 7, 1941 on the night of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, and was held in six different concentration camps over the next two years.
“Looking at this past is important to try and understand what is happening now and what the end result will be,” he said.
DHS: restraining “worst and worst”
Locally known as Camp East Montana, Fort Bliss facility rises like a white tent town on a flat desert plain. It fits within the military base, but visible from El Paso’s bustling Montana Avenue, adjacent to an unmarked building, the local headquarters of US immigration and customs enforcement agencies.
At a cost of $1.2 billion, the camp has the capacity to detain 5,000 people. Around 1,000 men were detained there in mid-August.
Tricia McLaughlin, the Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, is called the comparison between the national detention centers and the detention centers of World War II concentration camps, and is “crazy and lazy.”
“The facts target the worst and worst situations, including murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, rapists and more,” she said in a statement.
A Cato Institute analysis of government data in June found that ICE arrested more than four times more non-criminals on the streets each week than convicted people. ICE’s own data shows that 45% of the approximately 59,000 people detained in mid-August had no criminal history or accusations.
Mike Ishii, executive director and co-founder of Tsuru, an immigration rights advocacy group, said it is similar to the current administration.
“Now, that’s very scary for people,” he said, ishii, whose family was being detained at the Minidoca concentration camp in Idaho. “It was 1941, and it was horrifying too.”
“There is no explanation for fraud.”
Eighty years ago, Fort Bliss housed dozens of people labeled “an alien enemies” by the government in a detention camp containing two compounds surrounded by double barbed wire fences, according to Densho.
After the US joined European allies and declared war with those countries, the number of immigrants from Germany and Italy decreased.
At least 113 first-generation Japanese-Americans were sent to the base and then to other holding areas around the country, according to records compiled by IREIZO, a non-profit database of Japanese-Americans held during their internment.
Those detained in bliss were immigrants. They were the first of the final internment of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans across the country, most of whom are American citizens.
“There was no explanation for the misconduct for the majority other than being considered “enemy aliens,” said Karen Jumeto, director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Los Angeles, University of California.”
Alien Enemy Act of 1798
After Japan’s attacks on Pearl Harbor, the US government saw Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans as potential traitors, Mumeto said. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately summoned the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 to detain people and confiscate their property.
This year, Trump has designated the same law as the “enemy of the alien” and invoked the same law to target them for rapid deportation. The Supreme Court blocked him with a specific denial.
The Biden administration also used the Blissful fort to house cross-border immigrants as unaccompanied children.
Under Biden, a private contractor-run Fort Bliss “emergency intake site” was used to process children for admission to the United States rather than deportation. Still, survivors and descendants of Japanese detainees protested at the facility in 2021, bringing attention to the poor situation there, including issues relating to child safety and case management, which were later recorded in a 2022 federal report.
Asked about the forced history of the base, the Department of Defense introduced USA Today in an August 7 news briefing. This was spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson that Fort Bliss would “become this critical mission, the biggest federal detention center in history for the deportation of illegal aliens.”
Learn lessons from history
At noon on August 21st, construction vehicles and passenger cars entered and left Fort Buri Camp. Picture book clouds painted on a puffy, pale blue sky.
There were no signs on the roads to announce the facility, except for warnings posted on plywood.
Like the historian, Niiya said, “We’ve always said it’s important to know this.
