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Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025

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par Rachel Pistol, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton

The recent opening of an immigration centre in El Paso, Texas, has reignited protests of the Trump administration’s tough immigration plans from Japanese Americans. The internment camp, which opened in August 2025, is on the site of a military base that was used to intern Japanese Americans during the war.

In the past few months hundreds of Japanese Americans have been protesting the construction…

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