We had a terrific personal and professional relationship shooting the series.

rural stock and dreamt that with hard.It is a proven technique to create fear in people by claiming that hordes of strangers and criminals are invading our borders — although it is a known fact that immigrants cause fewer crimes than native-born Americans.

who claim they want America to be a Christian nation but ignore the most basic Christian message of loving your neighbors (whoever they may be) and to be charitable for the needy.Remember recently when Haitian immigrants in Ohio were being castigated by the false accusation that they were eating their neighbors pets? People in Ohio became fearful of the Haitian community in Springfield.were denied civil rights and often persecuted.

Our Japanese ancestors were part of that massive wave of newcomers who sought only the opportunity to better themselves – an opportunity afforded to them by an America that was more generous back then.Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of The Rafu Shimpo.

But this message of Christian love seems to be lost on the right wing.

immigrant) who lives amongst usReyes was already known to The Rafu.

the ‘outsider was no longer on the outside.said Reyes passing is a loss for an entire community.

but by then she was known as classical Japanese dancer and instructor Sumako Azuma II.Reyes with his camera was a fixture in the Japanese American community.