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Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site.

Homeland Security officials say Donald Trump's sweeping mass deportation campaign requires a build-up of detention centers to bridge the gap between arrests and removals. They've turned to the U.S. military and private contractors to get the job done, including erecting the nation's largest immigrant detention site on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases.

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 9 hours ago

forced internment

American concentration camps. Don't make it sound less than it was.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

$1.2 billion for a tents. Who are the private contractors ripping off the US taxpayer? The Japanese-Americans are 100% correct.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

$1.2 billion and it will house 5000 people.

That's $240,000 per person.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

I can do it for a quarter of that and everyone gets to keep their new houses we'd build. And the old houses they would be being enticed to leave. And their human rights and dignity.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Most of the money is spent on weapons

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

Hey, Dean Tanaka, better known as Dean Cain, could work there! Maybe he can find the cell his father was intered in!

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 39 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

There are no parallels that can be drawn here.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago

Remarkable how the homeland security spoke person specifically calls out the center being used for the "worst of the worst" and mentions rapists and pedophiles, of which her boss is convicted of one and under investigation for the other. Doesn't bat an eye.

Imagine being insulated from reality to that degree, or just having the sense that those rules don't apply to some.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wish I was back in the timeline where Nazis got their cheeks clapped

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Thought this same thing when I was listening to a playlist that included this song from Woody Guthrie today. As a Georgia born deep south that is anti-fascist I am sad what has become of this whole country. Where are my anti-fascist hillbillies?

https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

Edit: This guy is my modern hillbilly mocking the fascist.

https://youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM

Or my favorite from him:

https://youtu.be/8E9l_i6HPYM

Edit2: never read the comments until now but holy shit there are a lot of clueless people that don't get his lyrics are critical of Trump and America. Like actually amazing how many people think "join ICE" is literally pro ICE.

I guess it's "Love me, Love me, I'm a liberal" for the modern era.

[–] Sirfedora@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Fun fact: A good amount of Americans during WW2 wanted to support Nazi Germany

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And a lot of Nazi policies were based on US segregation and eugenics.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 19 hours ago

another fun fact, the nazi determined some of the american segregation policies were to extreme for them.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

The northern states, in contrast, supported the Allies.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yet we're still racist as hell

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

This is mine now.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Finally see someone else use this GIF. Kudos

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

You might be there once this administration goes full holocaust

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

history rhymes, and similarly, this won't look good in future textbooks

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There won't be future textbooks.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

You assume the cephelapodes aren't watching

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is why they’re dismantling the educational system here too

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 17 points 22 hours ago

They've been at it for several decades now. It's a large part of why Trump won.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

I sure hope that future is less than hundred of years from now

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago

This morning I was just talking with someone how literally nothing has changed from the japense "internment" camps and whats happening now. No clearer sign these are more illegal racist concentration camps

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Boethius over there screaming about wheels.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

In other words, history repeats itself.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Time is a flat circle.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hope someone is setting up bank accounts for future reparation payments...

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

they got 10% of intel, I'm sure it'll be fine

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm sure this is tongue in cheek. But for those that don't understand; fascism is not to be confused with socialism because of "state ownership".

Socialism isn't when "the government owns stuff". Historically fascist have used the power of the state to ensure the corporate interests are met. That is what is being done currently.

This is not a "state ownership" that gives control to the working class. This is a use of your tax dollars to ensure the value of a private corporation increases. This is a common and historical part of fascist movements. It is a move that confuses those uneducated in class conflict.

If you are not looking at actions like this from a lense of class conflict you will be confused. It's important to understand who benefits from these types of things when "the government does stuff" and what class interest are being enforced.

If you grew up in a world that has only ever been neoliberalism (as most of us have) it can be confusing. You have not been given the tools to understand the class conflict. Because it is beneficial to the ruling class that you do not understand, or even become aware of these contractions in the first place.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

If we ever get a real government again they need to seize all Trump assets and sell them as a starting point.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

If we ever get a government again hopefully "assets" of the all of the capitalist class will be used to build a new democratic rule for the working class. There are a lot of debts to be paid to the people that built this country. Descendents of slaves and natives of this land especially deserve it. But the entire working class from the undocumented farm worker to the white hillbilly will benefit from a redistribution of this nations wealth to those that actually produce it.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Rubbing it in, big time.