If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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Do you think that todays' SCOTUS would decide differently if Korematsu case was heard by them instead of 1944 justices? I don't doubt the same reasoning by at least 4 of them right now.
So, let me get this straight, they deported actual citizens? I thought they were undocumented so called “criminals” without due process, which was an unconstitutional thing to do regardless, but were some of them American citizens? 😡
The WW2 internment of Japanese Americans included about 70% US citizens (out of the total of 120,000+). Many of the rest did not have a path to citizenship under the racist laws in place at the time. If you want to be further sickened, read the Supreme Court decision “Korematsu v. United States.”
I don't think they've admitted to deporting a citizen yet, not that it hasn't happened, but they have deported people that were here legally because due process isn't a thing any more.
Please everyone march tomorrow and every day that you can until this nightmare ends 🙏 A Chinese woman has committed suicide in an Arizona Border Station after being arrested for overstaying her visa.
Please--you all see what they're doing. We have to stop them.
Done and done. Signed it months ago and post it frequently!
Both critical mass all day every day + labor strikes
I strongly believe no one in the US should go back to work as usual after this weekend. Focus on creating community mutual support groups + pooling funds to support people who need help
Americans are the stupidest people on earth. Raised to believe that no matter what you do you're the fucking best at EVERYTHING. It's gross. It's beyond gross! The American people make me sick!!!
If this made you defensive, you're probably part of the problem.
I've never understood American exceptionalism, and I am an American. All it's done is keep us insular and ignorant, like believing we have the best health-care system in the world or that it's okay to have for-profit universities, and unwilling to consider other viewpoints.
Yes, we’ve been watching this happen here. My husband and I have said for years that we’re living in the movie “Idiocracy.” Now it’s the horror version of that movie. We would love to be able to move elsewhere, but can’t afford to. 😔
I’m not going anywhere and neither should you. Why should we leave? They should be forced out or better, sent to jail if they’re leaders of the movement. What we should do is take it back. Take it all back.
The 1/2 that believe it are the same ones who don't understand how government works, don't have a firm grasp on English (their only language), and don't know about world geography, other cultures, national and world history, or U.S. and world geography.
I live in a resort valley with thousands of Canadian snowbirds. We LOVE you guys and have never had any issues with Canadians. EVER. It's just the psychopath in the WH who INVENTED the problem
I wish America was more like Canada.
I recently bought a residence in Whistler. I am now seriously considering applying for dual Citizenship with Canada. I already have a residency cert for Cayman and a place there. Best of both worlds. Summer and Winter homes outside the U.S. 👍
Very much so. My buddy wore me down over the course of a decade of me visiting him and his family there.
I am not a fan of winter weather but Spring and Summer there are spectacular. An opportunity popped up and I couldn’t pass up making an offer. The seller accepted it less than a month ago. 😃🥰
Just made me sad. I am a retired teacher and have spent my life trying to improve the quality of education in the U.S. I know we have many stupid people here. But for those of us who have spent our lives working on that very issue, it feels sad to read the generalization in your statement.
I hope you mean white “American people.” Because us Black folks have done our work and paid in more ways than most. So make sure your ire is directed at the right parties. 😒
American here..never ever did think or was I raised to think that I/we are the "fucking best" at everything. In fact, for many years I have been saddened by how money is everything here. I'm sorry we make you sick.
2/2 One of Russias main goals is to get the world to all hate each other.
That's when he knows he can really step in. Trump is putins puppet. My opinion of course.
I know this sounds hard to believe, but the egocentric& just plain dumb do not nearlymake up the majority of Americans.Wehave been fighting this Russian invasion &never realized we've been at war for at least 15 yrsThe good have hung in there until the richest nut in the world entered stage right1/2
I can't imagine the injustice or pain you and your family were forced to endure, but as a born citizen of the United States of America, I can demand it never happens again, using every resource at my disposal to stop it.
It shouldn't have happened then & it shouldn't be happening now. We are NOT at war with Venezuela and there's NO excuse to deny the deportees their constitutionally guaranteed rights. If it happen to them, it can happen to any of us.
I can't believe more people aren't freaking out about this! They are disappearing people who are here legally. How long before it's any citizen that speaks out against the administration.
A black mark on America's history that I thought would never happen again. I hope this is not triggering severe flashbacks for you. Keep fighting with us.
First of all dude was not an American citizen he was an MS-13 gang member who happened to flee to this country and somehow ended up in the hands of trump now and they deported them to another country but no he was not a citizen
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More selective Americanism at which point will they start prescibing the qualifications, race, religion, political affiliations. This an example of when countries get too big and why the hell do so many countries allow one unqualified leader to have free reign.
Thank you for sharing this. Many people don't know or remember the many times that the American government has incarcerated innocent American citizens. Under #dtrump and his dismantling of the DOJ this is/will happen even more.
#WhiteSupremacy
The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to us all. 47 is arguing this is not so. Who’s to say they won’t try to revoke the citizenship of anyone who disagrees with or criticizes the administration?
Again! Not the same! Different times different circumstances...period! They haven't bombed your harbours, they haven't performed crimes against humanity they haven't taken vows to kill or enslave anyone who is not like them. The white house on the other hand.....
My son is a sophomore in high school and he has chosen your book to cover for one of his classes. The saddest thing is that I had to sign a release to say that it was OK for him at 15 years old to be able to read it. Thank you for your decades of advocacy
Ah you live in the land of the free though. I gave it to my kid in the UK who is exactly the same age to read at school and there was no issue. Because why would there be? JD Vance can lose his mind over perceived censorship but it's really not a thing here.
I know- I grew up overseas. On my mothers side I'm 1st generation from Oslo and I spent a number of years in Ireland. It wasn't an issue when I was a teenager reading 1984, to kill a Mockingbird in a number of other books that were required reading. I would leave my kids are here so for now we stay.
Add in Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, all required reading in my UK high school. It says more about those censoring these texts than anything. Read, discuss, teach or it happens all over again. Can't, and mustn't hide from it.
It was all required reading in elementary school in the US when I was growing up. 1988-2001 our k-12 allowed these books. The first book ban I recall was Handmaid's Tale in 1997/8.
It also means they can say you aren’t a citizen and you will never get due process to prove otherwise. Which I know is sort of beside the point, but still a point.
You know why we know 6 million plus Jews were killed in the Holocaust? Because the Germans kept good records. The fascists this time have no desire to keep good records.
The amount of complicity that can be thrown around is unreal. If anything is a symbol of corporate greed it's how these corporate entities dealt with Germany during the Nazi days. Fanta Cola is a good example as well.
Autocracies as well because they invite corruption and being able to corrupt a politician or person in charge of government contracts ensures that they get the government contracts. That's what Musk is doing.
I think about it every time I watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the fact that they couldn't find any little people to play the Oompa Loompas in Germany because they had all been eliminated.
This just makes me so sad. In my obviously naive mind, due process set us apart from other countries who has seemingly less fair systems of government. It took moving to Europe to learn that so much of what we are taught in school in America, about our history, and especially about WW2 is 👇
blatant propaganda. Well, I stand for the lies as we were told. I grew up believing in the idealized version of America that we were fed. We are a melting pot. Equality, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is for every person, including immigrants. This is the hill I will die on.
"Accidentally".
And in the process "accidentally" threated every US citizen with the same treatment under the message "we can send you away forever on a whim"
Beyond comprehension how few people understand that denying due process is the first step towards judicial collapse and fascism. Our people are truly ignorant.
About 415,000 US soldiers died (210,000 in Europe) and 380,000 UK soldiers.
Other numbers are based on respective nations' birth records and estimates.
The death toll of WWII in Europe is estimated from 15 to 20 million. Across the world, it is between 40 to 60 million.
It can Happen Anytime and Anywhere 6 million Jews were Interned and Burned to Death by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany ! The Blue Resistance Must Maintain Persistence to be Effective against the Nazi Regime of Dictator Donald Trump ! Resist Resist Resist Resist Resist Resist !!!!
Have my half-Taiwanese US citizen by birth child in college in Boston carrying his passport everywhere he goes now. Saw this coming back in 2016. As soon as Trump took office kids started feeling comfortable yelling slurs at him walking through the neighborhood. Such a nightmare.
I grew up in the east coast and education minimizes all of it. They make it seem like folks got to go back to their lives.
Here in the PNW my kids learned the real history. There’s still a museum here, filled with things detainees were forced to abandon.
They were set free with nothing.
Yes and all their property was confiscated
It was quite awful and we still have a Japanese family in my community that were interred
They owned a large Orchard and it
was saved for them by a white family and returned to them after the War
It was a very generous and kind thing
I’m in PA and they did teach this, but even if they didn’t, my family came from Italy and they were frightened even tho we had ppl in uniform here in the US. People reported my uncle for having radios and stuff like that. It was Japanese Italian and Germans.
When I lived in L.A., I loved all the sushi and boba places on Sawtelle Boulevard. Someone educated me how this HAD been fully of Japanese small businesses...b4 the Japanese-Americans were forced from their homes. It was good it had come back, but it took decades. (And NEVER shld have happened.)
I read a
story about a girl & her family they lost their home & business. The son joined the military to get out if the camp #booksky #historicbooks
Does anyone remember this book & what. The title is?
I read in middle school & Was
shocked the USA did this to citizens. I never heard of it before
Blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, and vegetable farms around Bainbridge island and areas that then grew up to be Bellevue, entire lost to families who had been there for a generation and then one day it was all taken and sold. It completely destroyed a successful NW (nonwhite ofc) community.
This is what poor education does. I was taught they were detained, which was wrong, but they all got to go back. I always thought their property was retained by them. I mean I learned as an adult it wasn’t true.
Whitewashing
This travesty
and
America is WHAT?
Numb
Wake -up
America
1933
they created
The other
They took everything humiliated tattooed, raped, enslaved, shot, buried as they dropped in pits, imprisoned, fillings from the teeth
gassed, cooked
THE OTHER
in ovens
Tomorrow you
may become
The other
Wake-up
That’s nice. But the current government is saying the people they’ve already deported aren’t eligible for due process because they aren’t in the US anymore. So if they can get you out of the country without due process (and they’ve proven that they can), you aren’t getting it.
I majored in US History and taught it to high school kids for 15 years, there are parts of history I never thought I’d see repeated-Hitlers rise to power and the putting Americans in concentration camps. I always told my students and my professors always said history repeats itself. 🤬😢🤢
When I was in high school a few decades ago, when we learned about this, my entire class (all white kids) was in favor of it. One kid even said it was fair because it would be their turn one day. I stared at them in horror back then and wonder what they think today. (Probably all MAGAts now.)
Wow, had no idea you were interred back then. Sorry it happened to you. I know times were different then and paranoia was more prevalent but thats really no excuse fro such actions
I used to have your autobiography on tape in my car. The passage that stood out for me is when you asked your dad why he still supported America after your internment, & he said it was because of the country’s potential to still be what it strove to be. It’s been a source of strength for me lately.
Truly unimaginable that students expressing their First Amendment rights are being kidnapped by masked agents in America! We need to make sure they are not forgotten by bringing attention to them. Thanks for asking.
I live in 🇦🇺 but grew up under communism in Czechoslovakia. What happened to her gives me the chills. The whole trump disaster is unimaginable, but here we are.
There are several books on it. Obasan, by Joy Kogawa brought it to my attention back in 1981. And the lady I was renting an apartment from then was a survivor. I got a first person perspective.
When they were starting to ramp up this diversion, a Japanese American Exclusion Memorial near Seattle was set to have a commemoration on March 30th, and I couldn't help but feel like 'I hope everyone realizes this could easily happen again and soon'. Additionally tragic is its run by Nat'l Parks.
I have a passport, birth certificate, driver's license... I doubt any of that would stop an ICE agent from abducting me and putting me on a plane. ...if everyone does not have due process protections.
Ahh.. USA. A beacon of humanity and democracy..well, maybe not!
Please explain how 2/3 of the USA with humanity is being railroaded by this corrupt and inhumane administration, and you are helpless to do anything about it??
Most Americans, since the pandemic, live paycheck to paycheck and have no political authority. Our elections have been tampered with to the point of absurdity. Americans are calling, writing, and protesting, but until the wealthy oligarchs share our pain, nothing is likely to stop him. (2)
Republicans have a narrow majority in Congress. They're afraid of him, and death threats. Our Supreme Court corrupt judges gave him presidential immunity. Citizen's United gave the wealthy power to inject huge amounts of 💰 into our elections. (1)
I'm so sorry Mr. Takei! It's all so horrible. My sensei in Ki-Aikido was Nisei. He had to prove his worthiness to be American by fighting in WWII with the 100th battalion. I'm not Japanese but this should not happen to anyone! If we allow it to anyone then we could be next!
The Korematsu Center is filing 2 amicus briefs next week. One w/r/t birthright citizenship; the other, the executive order retaliating against law firms and lawyers. In the second, we begin with Fred Korematsu and the importance of pro bono legal representation to challenge governmental overreach.
Timothy Snyder is moving to Canada because he’s a coward. He’s a white man who has a nearly zero chance of getting put into a camp. I have a six month old daughter who is a Latina, she is a bigger threat to them than he is.
They think citizens can’t be deprived of due process but it happens all the time in America. The justice system bears no resemblance to what we’re taught in civics
Long before the Japanese-American internments, millions of American CITIZENS of Mexican descent were DEPORTED. Let’s face it, FDR was a bit of a racist.
Not enough people know about this. If you have a common Hispanic name you could be in grave danger of being deported to a country you’ve never been to. A huge swath of the US was Mexico before it was the US.
Im ashamed to say i did not know about the internment until fairly recently. We were not taught it in the UK. There's a lot of things that get brushed over and ignored.
To be fair, if you were to cover all the horrible shit America has done to its own people you'd need a few extra years of school. We might be a young country but dammit we're trying to fill the history books (and then burn them)
Wait until you find out how we experimented on our own citizens repeatedly, or how the government forced sterilisation on Indigenous and POC, or intentionally gave ppl syphilis w/o their knowledge
fuck these jerks carrying out unconstitutional orders from a dickhead dictator, don't they realize they are part of We The People and they are garbage to him as soon as they are no longer useful?
Nope, their pockets were lined corporations, military, industrial, religious complex. They are riding the waves of power, allowing the government to be robbed, until they run and hide on their yachts when the tides rise and the world climate collapses around us all.
@reichwingwatch.bsky.social
Would think these assholes would learn from his first admin. With how quickly he threw away all of his old admin who went against him he’ll even his former vice president. But guess the red hat and orange koolaide is too much. Wish they would just spike the koolaide already
Of all the things I dreaded for this regime, the deportations and him talking about Guantanamo was the worst. And my fears have come true. I hate this.
I used to listen to my history teachers and wonder how people could have let this happen and now as I watch it happen to my neighbours in the US it looks like lies leading to fear leading to hate and indifference while the rich use it to become more rich. Am I getting that right?
Germans were forced to Americanize their names. Italians were viewed as lazy traitors. If there is a group that can be targeted, the group in power will find them.
I was born in the territory of Alaska, which wasn't a state as it is now. Am I a citizen I sometimes ask? I feel so heart broken at the stories I hear of citizens and immigrants being interned. We are a country of immigrants.
I'm convinced fascists are in charge of my government. NOW. That they are only going through the formalities of appearing to accept court rulings against themselves through "quiet quitting" tactics. That will stop and they'll outright deport judges that rule against them. Then just disappear people.
George I am so so sorry you had to go through that. Our government has been terrible to a lot of none white people. Most don’t know of the trail of tears that decimated our Native Americans.
Exactly. It can’t be overstated what an epic crime this is. They should go to prison for doing this, even before defying a judge’s order. This is treason, illegal, immoral, I could go on and on. Makes me so angry. They should be locked up, but instead it’s more likely we are the ones in danger.
Their property, confiscated by the government,was worth about 400 million dollars.
In 1948, the government paid $38 million as reparations.
In the late 1980s, it paid $20,000 to individuals who were taken to the camps.
I guess they waited 40 years for the older ones to die.
MAGA is a Terrorist Organization , ICE is a Secret Police Force Conducting Ethnic Cleansing , Elon Musk is an Oligarch the US has many ,
Trump is a Foreign Backed COUP Figurehead "Useful Idiot" .. This is not an Administration , This is a Regime , And the USA is "Occupied" ..
And I know George Takei is Star Trek but you want to guess where George Lucas got the execute order 66 from? I’m sure George Takei knows. It’s an executive order. Than enabled that internment.
Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. This has got to stop NOW. Republicans have not learned a damn thing . The people need to rise up b4 there is nothing to rise up for 🤨
Was just at Manzanar today. I learn something new (and sad) every time I go. Today, I learned that Canada also had camps, and 16 countries in Latin America, after being pressured by the US. I had no idea.
We know it can happen, thank you for reminding us of that dark moment in our history. This administration seems to be willing to visit all the ills of our past upon the people. Their open racist actions tell us all we need to know.
I apologize for the inhumanity of the internment camps, an insult to proud Americans. A shock that FDR participated & in turning back the ship of Jews fleeing Nazis & certain death. He did some amazing wonderful things but proved no one is perfect. I hope Eleanor gave him hell for these failures. 💕
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Please--you all see what they're doing. We have to stop them.
https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/04/02/jayapal-statement-on-death-of-detained-person-at-yuma-border-patrol-station/
sign if you can n pass it on
https://generalstrikeus.com/
Both critical mass all day every day + labor strikes
I strongly believe no one in the US should go back to work as usual after this weekend. Focus on creating community mutual support groups + pooling funds to support people who need help
https://bsky.app/profile/aclu.org/post/3llzdckz7nc2f
If this made you defensive, you're probably part of the problem.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees.html
As a Black Woman that is part of the 92% we are not included in that BS.
I recently bought a residence in Whistler. I am now seriously considering applying for dual Citizenship with Canada. I already have a residency cert for Cayman and a place there. Best of both worlds. Summer and Winter homes outside the U.S. 👍
I am not a fan of winter weather but Spring and Summer there are spectacular. An opportunity popped up and I couldn’t pass up making an offer. The seller accepted it less than a month ago. 😃🥰
That's when he knows he can really step in. Trump is putins puppet. My opinion of course.
#ImprisonICEagents
#EndTrumpism
#EndTrumpCult
#Impeach47
#ImpeachVance
#ImpeachJohnson
#JailStephenMiller
#DeportMusk
#SectionRFKjr
#FireHegseth
#FireTheCabinet
#WhiteSupremacy
I was 83-88 in high school. I dont remember any banned books (though UK)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your work.
Heartache for what we did to you. Such a betrayal. I am deeply sorry.
Also, in case you haven't guessed from my fan glee, I watched the first run series as it was first run.
Has humankind no capacity to learn & remember from past atrocities beyond a generation or two ? 😢
Why do we never hear about the ‘other’ 5M????
Not directed at you specifically, just a giant pet peeve I have.
people from sowiet union: anti-slavic racism and western cold war sentiments (not growing up in the west, their deaths were discussed)
disabled people: ongoing ableism
Sinti and Roma: ongoing hate against them
communists: western cold war sentiments
...
That’s the whole pt. That’s why they sent them out of country.
And in the process "accidentally" threated every US citizen with the same treatment under the message "we can send you away forever on a whim"
He killed a million with COVID, only 5M to go... who's up next
He also murdered LBGQTIA+, gypsies, Poles, disabled, mentally disabled.
Other numbers are based on respective nations' birth records and estimates.
The death toll of WWII in Europe is estimated from 15 to 20 million. Across the world, it is between 40 to 60 million.
My Family can also bear witness
Yoko was a friend to my Grandma and they were taken from their Home and interred in a
Japanese Camp and deported back to Japan after the War
Grandma never saw her friend again
Here in the PNW my kids learned the real history. There’s still a museum here, filled with things detainees were forced to abandon.
They were set free with nothing.
It was quite awful and we still have a Japanese family in my community that were interred
They owned a large Orchard and it
was saved for them by a white family and returned to them after the War
It was a very generous and kind thing
story about a girl & her family they lost their home & business. The son joined the military to get out if the camp #booksky #historicbooks
Does anyone remember this book & what. The title is?
I read in middle school & Was
shocked the USA did this to citizens. I never heard of it before
Whitewashing
The enemy isn't Trump
The enemy is the #Uniparty
Gee. What could be the reason?
Bless you friend.
and
America is WHAT?
Numb
Wake -up
America
1933
they created
The other
They took everything humiliated tattooed, raped, enslaved, shot, buried as they dropped in pits, imprisoned, fillings from the teeth
gassed, cooked
THE OTHER
in ovens
Tomorrow you
may become
The other
Wake-up
I visited Manzanar a few years back and it was devastating to see. 🧵
The Supreme Court has already decided they do.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/#:~:text=The%20Court%20reasoned%20that%20aliens,jurisdiction%20of%20the%20United%20States.
man's inhumanity to man and you are on the front line
Please explain how 2/3 of the USA with humanity is being railroaded by this corrupt and inhumane administration, and you are helpless to do anything about it??
Who's next?
This time will most likely be much worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
My point is, back then the US dealt with the Nazis in their midst, instead of electing them.
If they don't care about politics at all, they simply lack any understanding of the possible ramifications electing a fascist could have.
@reichwingwatch.bsky.social
Tomorrow, every city.
Fill the streets. We need to stop this regime as soon as possible.
Guilty until proven innocent
?????????????????
Many German and Russian nazis chose to change their names.
https://gofund.me/ae01c144
In 1948, the government paid $38 million as reparations.
In the late 1980s, it paid $20,000 to individuals who were taken to the camps.
I guess they waited 40 years for the older ones to die.
Trump is a Foreign Backed COUP Figurehead "Useful Idiot" .. This is not an Administration , This is a Regime , And the USA is "Occupied" ..
First they would ask you for your papers
Then they would tear up those papers
And then they would ask you for your papers
And then you were not illegally a person anymore
It can happen here and it can happen to you
Where will America be in 50 years if we keep following this path.