Japanese American American people protest the arrest of immigrants in the United States

The recent opening of the Immigration Center in the city of “Il Passo” in the US state of Texas, the American protests of Japanese descent, raised the plans of the administration of the US President, Donald Trump, the militant, and the center, which opened in August 2025, is located at a military base location that was used to detain Americans of Japanese origin during World War II.

Hundreds of Americans of Japanese descent, during the past few months, protested the establishment of new migrant detention centers, and plans to detain thousands of people, by the unit of implementing American immigration and customs laws, because they raise memories of their families in detention camps during World War II.

“Foreigners enemies” The United States government relied on the law of “foreigners and enemies” issued in 1798, which allows the arrest and deportation of foreigners “enemies” and was used during World War II to arrest Americans of Japanese origin.

Dublin prison, located near San Francisco, was closed in 2024, but the American Immigration and Customs Laws Unit seeks to reopen it again, as well as many other detention centers, to keep pace with Donald Trump’s plan to arrest large numbers of immigrants.

Mortise of detention

The Americans went out of Japanese origin to the streets with the intention of protesting, in July 2025, near Dublin, expressing their concerns that the recent raids carried out by the American Immigration and Customs Laws Unit represented a repetition of a history that led to the arrest of about 120,000 Americans of Japanese origin between 1942 and 1946.

The internal estimates of one of the American immigration and customs laws units indicate that about 60,000 immigrants are detention throughout the United States.

In turn, civil rights groups say that Latin societies are the target, although the Ministry of Internal Security has denied that they target any groups based on skin or race color.

“I am here because the Japanese have been arrested, my father has been arrested, and this cannot happen again, but that really happens, it is a shameful matter,” said one of the Japanese people. Trial, or legal procedures. ”

A historical comparison

The Americans’ community of Japanese origin rushed to a comparison between the alleged targeting of Latin societies by the American Immigration and Customs Laws Unit, and the treatment they suffered during World War II, and this led to a special national attention when dozens of masked federal police and armed forces arrested, and they arrested a person outside the National Museum of Americans of Japanese origin in Los Angeles, during the dumping of a ruler California, Given News, his speech.

This site is a great symbolism, where American families of Japanese origin were forced to ride buses to transfer them to American detention camps in 1942, and the National Museum of Americans of Japanese origin published several pictures aimed at comparing the conditions of crowded detention camps during the Second World War, and the cages used in the US administration’s detention centers, and in both cases members of the families were separated from each other, This has led to more suffering, and everyone has very large psychological shocks.

Great racism

During the decades leading up to World War II, many legislations were issued to stop the immigration of Chinese and Japanese to the United States, where Asian immigrants were suffering a great racist of “eggs” in the United States.

Many companies run by white -skinned Americans refused to employ Asians or allow them to use entertainment facilities, such as swimming pools, and white -skinned Americans refused to allow anyone who seems Asian to rent or buy real estate in the neighborhoods that belong to them, and despite these challenges, the Asians were able to work hard to establish companies and farms of their own, in addition to working in many American factories.

The migrants of Latin origin and Spanish speakers consist these days about 19% of the workforce in the United States, but they are exposed to a permanent racist treatment in the United States.

Forced displacement and prison

During the Second World War period, and given that the United States and Japan were on two contradictory parties, as a fierce war took place between the army of the two countries, the population of Japanese origin in the United States was subjected to forced deportation from their places of residence, in addition to being arrested.

Former US President Franklin de. Roosevelt signing the executive order of the number 9066 in 1942, which requires their treatment in this way.

The executive order “iO 9066” is permissible with the forced transport of anyone who is a threat to national security from the western coast of the United States, and although no specific ethnic group was mentioned, it was mostly used to target Americans of Japanese origin, not Japanese citizens, but their children who were born in the United States.

Most of the controversy is from those who defend detention, whether at the time or now, that they aim to rid the state of “unwanted persons”, who were described during the period of World War II as “similar to enemies” or are now said about them: “immigrants are illegal, or violent criminals”, but recent information shows large numbers of arrests that take place for people who have no criminal charges or convicts Some of them hold American citizenship.

This indicates that the American Immigration and Customs Laws Unit focuses largely on achieving its alleged share of detainees, which amount to 3000 immigrants per day, but the White House denied the existence of such a daily share that the unit for the implementation of immigration and customs laws must achieve. About the “Convenue”

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America and the recognition of the injustice of Japanese origins

A Japanese woman embraces her mother, who was born in a detention center during World War II. From the source

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House as president, many people have been arrested for simple reasons, perhaps during their routine procedures to obtain citizenship, where very simple mistakes are committed, such as forgetting to submit requests for this process, and even when someone enters the United States legally, this does not necessarily mean protecting him from arbitrary detention, caused by the new powers issued during the Trump era, which was intended to arrest the largest number of possible Immigrants.

Hundreds of people are now being held in camps that were constructed in haste in isolated areas, to remain far from the eyes of people who will ask many questions about the reasons for their presence in that place.

During the Second World War, such with centers that were then named “the 10 resettlement centers”, or the detention camps, which were created in the west and southern United States of Japanese American, who were deprived of appearing before the judiciary, are not the right to defend themselves before the Law Court, and they can be arrested indefinitely without a fair trial.

During June 2025, suggestions from the Trump administration appeared to be discussed and aimed at stopping legal procedures, and if that happens, there will be no limits for the period during which any person can be arrested in this type of detention camps, and therefore these detainees no longer have any rights to obtain a fair trial.

In 1988, the United States admitted that it had committed a “great injustice” against the Americans of Japanese origin, and that these actions that were committed during World War II were motivated by racist prejudice, and “war hysteria”, but it is not clear what lessons can be used from this date, if this is already present, and if so, why is it ignored?

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Severe fear among foreign university students

The American of Japanese origin is Joe Okimito. From the source

The American of Japanese origin, Joe Okimito, says: “In 1942, a few months after the (Perl Harper) incident, a group of armed soldiers came to our home in (San Diego) in the state of California, and ordered my family to climb to a truck that transported us to a temporary prison in the city of (Santa Anta) in California, and there were no legal measures that allow us to defend ourselves against any Accusations, and there was a great fear in Japanese American society, because no one knows what would have happened to us. ”

“When we entered prison, my family included my parents, who migrated to America in 1937, in addition to my older brother born in Tokyo, and I was born in the United States. My mother was pregnant in her sixth month, and she gave birth to my younger brother in primitive living conditions.

“Today, a great fear prevails among the immigrants, and even among foreign university students. Instead of soldiers, the men of the Immigration and Customs convincing people kidnap people from the streets, and send them to isolated detention centers or foreign detention camps. These prisoners do not give due legal procedures as happened with us. ” About the non -profit American “Dencho” organization.

. The recent events are back to mind the arrest of about 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent between 1942 and 1946.