'When we were detained, America turned its back on us... There were no protests on our behalf,' said Satsuki Ina, who was born in a Japanese-American internment camp.
Born in an internment camp where her family was incarcerated for years, Satsuki Ina's earliest memory from childhood is one that she will never forget.Newsweek.As an infant, Ina was one of more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the U.S. forced into detention following Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
The experience and aftermath of incarceration was so traumatic for Ina and her family that it was something her parents were rarely able to speak about. "So, we feel that it's important for the children their families to know that there are people on the outside who care and who are speaking out and protesting," she said.
"For me, I don't feel like I have a choice. I have to go. I need to go there. I need to register my opposition and I think that is a sentiment that is shared by a lot of people in my community," he said."As soon as I first saw the headlines coming out about this policy to bring 1,400 children to Fort Sill, I felt like I just had to be there. I knew I was going to go no matter what. So, I started speaking to my co-organizers and we all unanimously agreed that we had to go.
"Our parents were incredibly resilient people. They felt they had to prove to the rest of the country that they were good citizens, but that meant they functioned over violence, pain and mental suffering," Ishii said.
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