Thank you very much for this incredible honor.

And we have to stand strong …We cannot forget that what we are doing today is standing up against the actions of the administrations broader and ongoing assault to dismantle the foundational principles of diversity.Japanese Americans were torn from their families and they were called enemy aliens.

dsspite how painful and unflattering …Unfortunately.and rewrite history to promote their own exclusionist narrative.We cannot normalize a police state.

but she said she needed to be here.the Smithsonian and other institutions from educating the public about any negative aspects of American history.

but we were still under the jurisdiction of the federal prison.

this occurrence is part of our DNA … We will not bow to any pressure to erase history.because the deprivation of liberty is the punishment; cruelty is not part of the sentence.

I know what it means when policies are made in a rush and the people affected are told to wait for the courts or for history.I see echoes of that injustice unfolding again.

000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.If these accounts are even half true.