Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center
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Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site.
Homeland Security officials say Donald Trump's sweeping mass deportation campaign requires a build-up of detention centers to bridge the gap between arrests and removals. They've turned to the U.S. military and private contractors to get the job done, including erecting the nation's largest immigrant detention site on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases.
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Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site.
Homeland Security officials say Donald Trump's sweeping mass deportation campaign requires a build-up of detention centers to bridge the gap between arrests and removals. They've turned to the U.S. military and private contractors to get the job done, including erecting the nation's largest immigrant detention site on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases.
history rhymes, and similarly, this won't look good in future textbooks
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Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site.
Homeland Security officials say Donald Trump's sweeping mass deportation campaign requires a build-up of detention centers to bridge the gap between arrests and removals. They've turned to the U.S. military and private contractors to get the job done, including erecting the nation's largest immigrant detention site on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases.
$1.2 billion for a tents. Who are the private contractors ripping off the US taxpayer? The Japanese-Americans are 100% correct.
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history rhymes, and similarly, this won't look good in future textbooks
There won't be future textbooks.
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$1.2 billion for a tents. Who are the private contractors ripping off the US taxpayer? The Japanese-Americans are 100% correct.
$1.2 billion and it will house 5000 people.
That's $240,000 per person.
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$1.2 billion and it will house 5000 people.
That's $240,000 per person.
I can do it for a quarter of that and everyone gets to keep their new houses we'd build. And the old houses they would be being enticed to leave. And their human rights and dignity.
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There won't be future textbooks.
You assume the cephelapodes aren't watching
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$1.2 billion and it will house 5000 people.
That's $240,000 per person.
Most of the money is spent on weapons
