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WW II Internment camp survivors protest incarceration of Central American women and children

Vincent T. Davis

"Ina recalled how Japanese-Americans disappeared from jobs and classrooms without any outrage from neighbors.

'Nobody stood up for us,' Ina said. 'We had never committed a crime except to have the face of the enemy. But I feel empowered today that we can use our voices, voices that we didn’t have then to speak out against injustice and inhumane treatment of innocent human beings.'"


"From 1942 to 1948, the Crystal City Internment Camp was one of three government camps in Texas that detained U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. At the height of World War II, about 4,000 Japanese-Americans, Italians and Germans were interned at Crystal City. A total of 120,000 Japanese-Americans were interned at camps operated by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service."

~ V. Davis