As this administration concurrently threatens to erase national monuments like WWII Japanese American incarceration camps.

his relatives were moved into internment camps in Arizona.My experiences in San Pedro and my love for this community led me to organize the Harbor Area Peace Patrol

role in the Viet-nam War and the subsequent mass resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in America from the 1970s to the early 1990s.This chartered flight is the first mass deportation flight to South-east Asia since 2020 under the first Trump Administration.The exemption of pre-1995 Viet-namese refugees from repatriation reflects humanitarian considerations related to the U.

We were treated like animals without human rights.Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deporta-tion.

The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Rafu Shimpo.and for the Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

After sitting out due to term limits.I am grateful for the unanimous support and trust of my fellow councilmembers in this selection.

Im proud to serve as the first Japanese American mayor of the City of Cerritos.Cerritos has continually elevated our service to residents and embraced the needs and makeup of our diverse community.