Hundreds in Little Tokyo tonight to say no to WH plan to use Fort Sill in Oklahoma as detention center for immigrant children. Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants were incarcerated there. Before them, Geronimo. “Never again is now.”
In Little Tokyo, Ty Tanioka is protesting Trump plan to put migrant children in Fort Sill. He’s doing it in the name of his grandparents who were incarcerated in Manzanar and Arkansas during WWII.
Kanji Sahara was 8 when his family was sent to the Santa Anita detention center, then incarcerated in Arkansas. So he says he know what detention camps like Fort Sill are: “modern-day concentration camps.”
Reps from more than a dozen Japanese American groups take center stage to show solidarity with migrants being detained by US gov’t #FortSill
You can read more about the Little Tokyo rally to shut down Fort Sill right here👇 laist.com/2019/06/28/jap…
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