During World War II, the U.S. Saw Italian-Americans as a Threat to Homeland Security

[MineralMan]

4. Almost no DUers, if any, are old enough to actually remember these things.

We know about the internment of Japanese Americans, more or less. I was born in 1945. When I first went to college, one of my friends was a young woman of Japanese ancestry. I was pretty clueless about the Japanese internment ordered by FDR until she talked about it. It turned out that she was born in the Manzanar internment camp. She told me about her family, which owned a grocery store in Los Angeles when they were sent to Manzanar. They lost everything. In 1963, they were still impoverished by what happened. One family member committed suicide because of it.

Now, we have another President who would dearly love to intern Muslim Americans. If he can get away with it, he will do just that, the next time a terrorist attack is made on U.S. soil. We no longer remember the internments of WWII at first hand. We only have stories. Even our WWII veterans, what few are still living, may not have known the extent of what happened.

Now, people are becoming aware of Americans of German and Italian descent who were also interned. That information has always been available, but it is no longer relevant to most people, who were not alive at the time.

We need to be aware that there is precedent for what Trump would like to do. We must be watchful and ready to protest any such moves by Trump.