The recent deportation of 200 Venezuelans by the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act sparked a rally at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center, where activists drew parallels to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Speakers, including Satsuka Ina and Carl Takei, shared personal histories, emphasizing a disturbing repetition of governmental overreach and removal of individuals without due process. While the administration alleges that deportees are gang members, legal representatives argue these claims are unfounded, focusing instead on tattoos as a discriminatory basis for deportation.
This is an effort to silence dissent and disappear our community members without any semblance of due process, without any hearings, and to pack them up and take them away to these faraway prisons.
The act caused the removal of not just Japanese immigrants, but what the government called non-aliens, which are American citizens.
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