Immigrant detention centers remind therapist of traumatic childhood in internment camps: “What happened in World War II is happening again”

Photo courtesy of CCA

This Los Angeles Times story tells about a therapist who spent was interned in a camp for persons of Japanese ancestry during World War and visited the family immigrant detention facility in Dilley, Texas.  She draws parallels between the internment camps and the current detention of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States. As Ina Satsuki put it, “The parallels, the resonance, the familiarity of the situation was really clear. What happened in World War II is happening again.”

KJ

Related articles

Sacramento Japanese Americans protest auction of internment camp art

THe Parallel Between Family Immigrant Detention and Japanese Internment

Congressman whose parents were held in Japanese interment camp blasts Cruz over Muslim ‘patrols’

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials — March 25, 2016

Commentary: The Art of Trump

Japan fleet returns from Antarctic whale hunt

From the Bookshelves: Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Selfa A. Chew and Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine by John H. M. Laslett