https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei ('second generation'; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship.

Internment was intended to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose. The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. Following the executive order, the entire West Coast was designated as a military exclusion area, and all Japanese Americans who were living there were taken to assembly centers before they were sent to concentration camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas. Similar actions were taken against individuals of Japanese descent in Canada. The internees were prohibited from taking more than they could carry into the camps, and many of them were forced to sell either some or all of their property, including their homes and their businesses. Inside the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and were patrolled by armed guards, the internees frequently lived in overcrowded barracks which contained minimal furnishings.

On December 17, 1944, the exclusion orders were rescinded, and nine of the ten camps were shut down by the end of 1945. Japanese Americans were initially barred from U.S. military service, but by 1943, they were allowed to join, with 20,000 serving during the war. Over 4,000 students were allowed to leave the camps to attend college. Hospitals in the camps recorded 5,981 births and 1,862 deaths during incarceration.

By 1992, the U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion (equivalent to $4.36 billion in 2025) in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated.

A dark moment of our history often passed over, and only recently begun to be more widely taught.

They got absolutely fucked, lost generations of wealth, their sons dying in Europe, their daughters and young sons denied a normal childhood. Thousands of acres of land reclaimed and redistributed to white business men and farmers. Completely uprooted and fractured communities that had to try to reform in wooden shacks hundreds of miles from home.

All that being said, they were allowed to form social clubs, printing/crafts/mending sheds, schools, put on shows, allowed to garden fresh produce, were given regular medical care, partial mail service. With what meager resources they were given they gave their children the best life they could from war time scraps. NONE of that shit is happening in Aligator Alcatraz.

The forced internment of American Citizens is a stain on the fabric of America. But what's being done now, is an evil disgusting fascist gash in the very structure of the USA.

You can tell it's not an ICE run concentration camp because the victims were allowed to see daylight.

I know there’s psychological research that says any of us could become Nazis, that we’re just products of our environment, but I dunno man. I see the things happening in the world and I don’t know how I could ever get from A to B. I think the systems are just good at finding the evil people and putting them in those positions.

war crimes against Japanese folk at home and abroad.