Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families’ forced internment in the Trump administration’s newest immigrant detention site.

Homeland Security officials say Donald Trump’s sweeping mass deportation campaign requires a build-up of detention centers to bridge the gap between arrests and removals. They’ve turned to the U.S. military and private contractors to get the job done, including erecting the nation’s largest immigrant detention site on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

But stewards of Japanese American history, including the children and grandchildren of those who were held in detention, are criticizing the use of Fort Bliss and the plans to expand immigrant detention on American military bases.

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    2 days ago

    Thought this same thing when I was listening to a playlist that included this song from Woody Guthrie today. As a Georgia born deep south that is anti-fascist I am sad what has become of this whole country. Where are my anti-fascist hillbillies?

    https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

    Edit: This guy is my modern hillbilly mocking the fascist.

    https://youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM

    Or my favorite from him:

    https://youtu.be/8E9l_i6HPYM

    Edit2: never read the comments until now but holy shit there are a lot of clueless people that don’t get his lyrics are critical of Trump and America. Like actually amazing how many people think “join ICE” is literally pro ICE.

    I guess it’s “Love me, Love me, I’m a liberal” for the modern era.