Wednesday, June 20, 2018

'At Least During Internment...'

What it's like sending a five-year-old to an internment camp...

Left, a Japanese-American woman with her daughter preparing to leave for an internment camp in 1942.  Right, Japanese-Americans at the Assembly Center at Santa Anita Racetrack near Los Angeles in 1942.

Imagine this scene: Tens of thousands, mostly families with children, are labeled by the government as a threat to our nation, George Takei, star of Star Trek reports on foreignpolicy.com.

(They) are used as political tools by opportunistic politicians and caught in a vast gray zone where human rights are erased, he wrote.

Thousands are moved to makeshift detention centers and sites.

That is America today, he noted.

For more of a timely report: http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/19/at-least-during-the-internment-are-words-i-thought-id-never-utter-family-separation-children-border/

Photo: foreignpolicy.com
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