Bay Area Japanese Americans Condemn Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act

A panel that included representatives of social justice organizations, such as the Tosoro for solidarity, the Chinese and the San Francisco Labor Council, called Trump’s anti -immigration policies and the Japanese Americans parallel to the injustice that endured years ago.

Some audience members were moved to tears. Others expressed happiness when the speakers urged people to take action.

Manu Raju, a public protector of San Francisco, one of the panelists, called for the disturbing scope of Trump’s occupation. Stressing on the Elin Enemy Act, he emphasized, saying that Trump had effectively snatched the immigrants from their right to their proper action.

Raju said, “Some people – who were abducted by the US government must be abducted and sent to El Salvador in violation of the federal court order – civil court dates are pending to seek their immigration status.”

After representing these individuals on charges of affiliation with the group, Raju called the mass deportation “horrible and provocative” without a day in court.

“If I were representing any of these individuals, I would really dig to understand the dynamics of who they are, and I would like to tell you many times that we will know that these allegations against them are not really true.”

Taki noted the cooling similarities between exiles and targeting Japanese immigrants during World War II.

“These early cycles of Japanese immigrants who were not American citizens were based on very thin evidence,” he said, how the FBI targeted his grandfather to talk to the captain of the civilian ship who had made a mistake for Japanese Navy.

Last weekend, deportation could be the first step in a dangerous development, which mirrors the map of the gradual expansion of arrests and detention during World War II.

He said, “The first step is the one that looks too much at the moment – it is a round -up to the SC (immigrant) race based on the request of alien enemies, and the coming phase was a huge cycle of everyone, citizens and non -making.”

The second phase happened when Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066. The majority of the Japanese people were sent to prison camps. They were American citizens.

“One of the reasons why the Japanese Americans are being done at the moment is so angry and frightened by what is happening during World War II,” said Taki, Taki said, “Taki warned, warning that if the request of the alien enemies acts in the courts, the state of the state could be blamed for the other. It can be noted that he can have a rage.

San Francisco’s Mission District resident Derlin Tom said she attended the meeting because she wanted to be the ally of weak immigrant groups. He said that as a science teacher at Mission High School, he felt the responsibility of time, where he studied for more than 25 years, and the majority of the students had a population of Latin. Many students were refugees and had minimal contacts or access to resources.

Tom told Kevid that he also witnessed this to connect more deeply than his Japanese heritage.

“I think staying here, it is an honor to see that it is happening,” said 67 -year -old Tom. “I feel like I can do and be proud of it.”

Rio Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Movement for Humanitarian integrity emphasized that the Japanese Americans will now be very important to resist the Trump administration’s efforts to improve the immigration system of the nation.

“His history is a marker in the United States, which is one of the few times that the United States has ever admitted to doing wrong and apologizing.” “It is so powerful to see the so that they are using their experience. Every community in the United States has some piece of story.”

Suski Anna, a co-founder of Tasuro for solidarity, a group that is trying to eliminate concentration centers, said the use of Trump’s Allen Anemies Act should be one last moment for Japanese Americans, once by others to talk to their families and demanded that Japanese.

He said that in recent weeks, members of the Japanese American community, including the elderly survivors of World War II, proceeded rapidly to resist Trump’s immigration policies. Some have joined its group and KNOW is participating in your rights training, such as working as a witness to immigration and customs enforcement raids.

Its co -founder, Mike Asi, called the call to resist, emphasizing that standing against injustice is a long -standing tradition in the Japanese American community.

“This moment may be particularly full of anxiety, but our community has increased many times,” he said. “We are strong, powerful, loving and flexible people. And you should not be offended. Because when our anger is activated, we become a power that is calculated.”