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Natasha Varner
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New Orleans' Camp Algiers was a major entry point for Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped and brought to the US during WWII. In many cases they were quarantined and showered in DDT there before being sent to more permanent detention sites.
Thanks to @jonvoss for pointing me to this article, which talks about the site's history as a detention facility for suspected Nazi sympathizers from Latin America. wwno.org/post/wwii-inte…
From Algiers, Japanese Latin American women & married couples w/o children were sent to Texas's Seagoville detention facility. The women were considered "voluntary" internees but in reality most had little choice but to follow their husbands to the US.
encyclopedia.densho.org/Seagoville_(de…
Many of the single men wound up in Camp Livingston in central Louisiana, where Japanese men from Hawaii and the West Coast had been detained since May 1942. At its peak Camp Livingston held 1,123 internees of Japanese ancestry. encyclopedia.densho.org/Camp_Livingsto…
Those incarcerated at Camp Livingston were subjected to forced labor, snakes, chiggers, ticks, and extreme heat and humidity. Some were "ordered to work in the nearby forest to cut pine trees to construct an airport, work for which they would not be paid." They refused.
Camp Livingston was shut down in mid-1943. Incarcerees who were reunited with their families from Latin America were placed in the US Department of Justice-operated Crystal City detention facility, about 100 miles outside of San Antonio. encyclopedia.densho.org/Crystal_City_(…
This video allows a glimpse into life at Crystal City, but note that it's propaganda and definitely paints a too-rosy picture of conditions at the camp. texasarchive.org/library/index.…
When the war ended, the US labeled these Japanese Latin American incarcerees "illegal aliens" and many could not return to their home countries. They endured years of citizenship limbo and are still fighting for justice. I wrote more about this here: pri.org/stories/2018-1…
This history is yet another reminder that the separation and detention of immigrant and refugee-seeking families is not an anomaly. Our immigration system, in collusion with US military and judiciary, has been refining this model since its inception.
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