Manzanar 2.0

In 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrongly issued Executive Order #9066 authorizing the incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps in California. Technically, #9066 authorized the Sec. of Defense to name certain special "military zones" throughout the United States where they could take extreme measures, including imprisonment, to stop citizens from collaborating with foreign enemies. Under the letter of the law, German and Italian citizens were also subject to this provision and could be imprisoned for fear that they were working with Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. Only they were not... The ONLY people incarcerated were Japanese Americans living in California. No Germans in Pennsylvania stopped, no Italian Americans in New York sent to camps, no, just the Japanese racial minority living in California. Why you think? This was racism 101, and completely unconscionable. All the more so when you consider that the most highly decorated US battalion in ALL OF WORLD WAR II was a Japanese American battalion fighting for the good old USA. Think about it: their children were in prison, and they still loved this country enough to die for it. It makes me cry. It makes me cry all the more when I look at what's coming out of today's White House where this MONSTER not only is creating something worse than Manzanar, but is happily laughing at the misery of children being removed from their parents.