that we witness today in this city reminds us of a painful past.

I started thinking not just of Japanese American history.We have to defy it for our rights and the rights of others.

said that her family was incarcerated at Tule Lake because they had answered no-no on the loyalty questionnaire.We are the descendants of the 1% they could not kill and the 1% that they could not take away …As the first people of Tongva of Los Angeles.We must deserve and protect our national parks historical integrity.

We’re going to have to talk about not only the atrocities happening for immigrant communities today.is that we the people have a lot of practice working together.

the National Park Service has lost nearly 25% of its staff.

the terror of 1942 when families were rounded up.Dana Fujiko Heatherton of the Japanese American Confinement Site Consortium.

and what we’ve seen happening to our brothers and sisters in the immigrant communities is a miscarriage of justice now.Nikkei for Civil Rights Redress.

The only thing that was different about them was the way they look.who was imprisoned at Heart Mountain during World War II.