Echoes of Internment: Mark Takano Draws Parallels Between WWII History and Modern Immigration Raids
A Legacy of Detention Representative Mark Takano, a Democrat from California, is publicly drawing stark parallels between the U.S. government’s current immigration enforcement strategies and the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Speaking from Washington D.C. this week, Takano highlighted his own family’s history of incarceration as a cautionary tale for contemporary…