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   Gabe Ortíz (tusk81@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 07:46:31 JST Gabe Ortíz

   “This is some serious shit,” former American Immigration Lawyers Association president David Leopold wrote on Bluesky. “The Alien Enemies Act led to the internment of US citizens of Japanese descent during WWII.” https://www.justsecurity.org/109133/alien-enemies-act-venezuelan-gang/

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     Martha Bridegam (mbridegam@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 07:54:39 JST Martha Bridegam

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     • Greenpete

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     George Takei as a child was incarcerated with his family in the U.S. camps among more than 120,000 Japanese Americans who were taken from their homes in West Coast states and detained in camps because of their ancestry. His family was held in the Santa Anita, Rohwer and Tule Lake camps. He has been active in camp memorial/preservation efforts.

     For more on the history of the incarceration generally, the Densho Encyclopedia is a good resource: https://encyclopedia.densho.org/contents/

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     Greenpete (greenpete@lor.sh)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 07:54:40 JST Greenpete

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     @tusk81 Didn't George Takei of Star trek fame suffer under this?
     I seem to remember a BBCR4 documentary about him being locked up for such a reason.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.