"On March 14, Donald Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to carry out his mass deportations,"
"The last time this law was invoked was during World War II, when it was weaponized to pave the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans, including my family."
"There was a chain-link fence around the whole racetrack facility. We were unloaded and herded over to the stable area. Each family was assigned to a horse stall. For my parents, it was a degrading, humiliating, enraging experience to take their three kids to sleep in a smelly horse stall."
George Takei draws parallels between his family's World War II incarceration and the Trump administration's immigrant detention and deportation policies. He notes that on March 14 Donald Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations and that the law was previously used to facilitate the incarceration of Japanese Americans, including his family. Takei condemns masked ICE officers rounding up undocumented immigrants and holding them indefinitely without due process. He recounts being unloaded at a racetrack, herded to stables, assigned a horse stall, and describes his parents' humiliation at making their children sleep in a smelly horse stall. After Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 authorized forced relocation of over 120,000 Japanese Americans to guarded prison camps.
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