""When we saw what was going on in terms of people being snatched off the streets and hastily built prison camps going up all around the country in deliberately remote areas, the resonance of it pushed this to the top of the line for us. It just felt like the time to do it,""
""That's definitely not true. These things don't just automatically happen. They're not on autopilot. There isn't anything inevitable about them. It's individual people - the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time - to give terrible policy outcomes like this. And so it's worth being really specific about who is actually making this happen, who's driving it, who can potentially be targeted, or focused on in terms of trying to stop it or change it.""
A new investigative history podcast examines the U.S. government's forced relocation and internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II and draws parallels to contemporary immigration enforcement that conducts abductions and rapid raids. Early military proposals favored limited relocations after Pearl Harbor, but other officials developed sweeping plans to detain both foreign- and American-born people of Japanese ancestry. The project emphasizes that grave government abuses arise from individual decisions rather than inevitability, identifies specific officials responsible, and urges attention to who is driving policies to enable efforts to stop or change harmful actions.
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