In the first year of the current federal regime, I spoke widely about What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today. The favored means then of deportation by Homeland Security was the outsourcing and offshoring of American concentration camps, away from the public eye.

Now in its second year, this regime’s tactics have evolved. Here are highlights of the grim outlook I gathered from several sources and shared at Densho’s recent workshop on “Teaching Difficult Histories;” at a panel at the Association for Asian American Studies conference just concluded; and last week at the Seattle Public Library’s “One Book, One Coast” program.
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