#Stop Repeating History!: Local Japanese Americans protest immigrant detention

The immigration crisis at the border with Mexico has struck a chord in the Bay Area’s Japanese American community, many of whom know someone who was sent to an incarceration camp during World War II  —  or are survivors themselves.

Libia Yamamoto clearly recalls the day her father was taken from their hacienda in Peru. “We went to the police station. There was a small group of men standing together. I asked my mother, ‘Where is he going?’ She said, ‘I don’t know.’ I asked, ‘When’s he coming back?’ She said, ‘I don’t know.’’’