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I'm so tired of watching our cultures be romanticized because we're under attack. "Palestinians are so strong!" "Iranians are so smart!" "Cubans are so kind!" Blocking humanitarian needs is bad! Bombing schools and hospitals is bad! IT DOES NOT MATTER IF WE FIT YOUR DEFINITION OF GOOD PEOPLE.

Author Tamiko Nimura reflects on her Japanese American family’s history of wartime incarceration in the Northwest Asian Weekly. In her forthcoming memoir-in-essays, A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE (April 2026), she draws from her late father’s unpublished memoir about his experiences at Tule Lake.

Tamiko Nimura reflects on her family’s history of incarceration in the U.S. during WWII

The incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II forever altered life for Japanese Americans and their families.

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“This memo is part of a broad and concerted effort to strip refugees of their legal status and render them deportable. This gov't will clearly stop at nothing to terrorize refugee communities, and really all immigrants, while trampling over our constitutional rights.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

Trump administration expands ICE’s ability to detain legal refugees in latest memo | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security is broadening federal immigration authorities’ ability to detain legal refugees who have not yet obtained green cards, citing national security concerns and the nee...

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For the Japanese American Day of Remembrance, we're sharing an excerpt from CITIZEN 13660, Nisei artist Miné Okubo's graphic memoir of daily life in US government-run incarceration camps in California and Utah during World War II. Read now on our blog:

On the Japanese American Day of Remembrance: Miné Okubo’s Witness of Incarceration in “Citizen 13660”

First published in 1946, Citizen 13660 remains one of the earliest and arguably best-known autobiographical accounts of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through spare pr…

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What tools are ICE and CBP using to track Washingtonians? Today's Seattle Times reporting covers two of UWCHR's recent findings: ➡️ sharing of WA Flock automated license plate data in 2025 ➡️ continued sharing of WA Dept of Licensing data via Nlets Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

How ICE is using technology, databases to track people

Federal immigration agents have an array of technologies they have purportedly used to track undocumented migrants, legal immigrants and, in some cases, citizens who oppose the government's intrusion ...

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DHS is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:

Exclusive: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees

New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration.

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