WW II Internment camp survivors protest incarceration of Central American women and children

April 1, 2019

Clem Albers, “Arcadia, California” (April 5, 1942) (National Archives)

Satsuki Ina, who contributed familial artifacts to an exhibition on the detention of Japanese Americans, is also organizing a memorial and protest with 60 former incarcerees.

A moment of silence is observed during the protest, which drew more than 100 people

Ina, currently a 74-year-old psychotherapist specializing in trauma, has organized a pilgrimage to Crystal City on March 30 with about 60 fellow former incarcerees to stage a memorial. Furious and despairing about the actions of the current administration, the group will then travel about 40 miles down the road to Dilley, Texas, where they will be joined by others for a protest at the euphemistically named South Texas Family Residential Center, where children are being separated from their parents — like Ina and others who were separated from parents during World War II.

“We’re in our 70s, 80s, and 90s,” Ina said. “I’ve been telling people we’re going to show up with our white hair and canes and wheelchairs and walkers, angry that this is happening again.”

– Read the story in Hyperallergic.

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

NOW IS the TIME WHEN WE MUST RISE UP and ACT to STOP the CONSOLIDATION of TRUMP MAGA FASCISM. For the lives of people here and around the world we must refuse unlawful and inhumane orders… we must fill the streets and town squares in non-violent protest—not stopping until we become millions — not relenting until this regime is no longer able to implement its program or maintain its hold on power.

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