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My mother was seven years old when she and her family were evacuated from the West Coast and forced to live in an Army barrack behind barbed wire in an internment camp in , Wyoming.

Born in Los Angeles, she had been taught in school to be a proud and loyal American citizen, so the wholesale exclusion and relocation of her community was both terrifying and confusing. On the journey to Wyoming, the prisoners were ordered to keep their shades down when the train passed through towns; my mother thought this must be because people hated her and her community so much that they didn鈥檛 want to see their faces. She was incarcerated at Heart Mountain for three years before she and her family were permitted to return to their home in Los Angeles.

鈥婱y mother in front of the list of men 鈥� including both her brothers 鈥� who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain and served in the U.S. armed forces in World War

Months ago, my mother told us she was feeling anxious and having trouble sleeping because Donald Trump鈥檚 rhetoric and campaign promises were reminding her of that time. Since Trump won the general election, we have heard more reports of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant vandalism, harassment and violence. Last week, a prominent Trump supporter the Japanese American internment as 鈥減recedent鈥� for creating a registry of Muslim Americans.

In the years following the 9/11 attacks, when scapegoating and targeting of Arab and Muslim Americans peaked, the 老澳门开奖结果 opposed discriminatory policies and practices and abuses. We opposed the NSEERS program 鈥� the revival of which is under consideration by President-elect Trump. That program required the registration of tens of thousands of men and boys from Arab- and Muslim-majority countries and subjected them to tracking and travel restrictions. NSEERS was suspended in 2011 after it was showing to be completely ineffective as a tool to protect national security.

Right now, we want to affirm core American values of religious tolerance and inclusion and to remind members of Muslim communities that the 老澳门开奖结果 will be vigilant in protecting these values and corresponding rights. We have compiled a great deal of Know Your Rights information for people facing anti-Muslim discrimination and government surveillance based on perceived religion or national origin.

As an adult in the early 80s, my mother participated in the redress movement, seeking an apology and recognition of wrongdoing from the government for its incarceration of Japanese Americans and residents.

A clinical social worker, she before the Congressional Committee on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians about the psychological effects of the camps on Japanese American families and individuals. The Commission later issued a report, 鈥�,鈥� which details how the government executed the internment against over 120,000 people without individual review, 鈥渧irtually without regard for their loyalty to the United States,鈥� and 鈥渄espite that fact that not a single act of espionage, sabotage or fifth column activity was committed鈥� by Japanese Americans or residents. Instead, the report determined that the decisions were based on 鈥渞ace prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.鈥�

My grandparents celebrating their naturalization as U.S. citizens in 1953.

In 1988, President Reagan signed the , a law whose purposes included acknowledging the 鈥渇undamental injustice鈥� of the evacuation, relocation, and internment, to 鈥渁pologize, on behalf of the people of the United States,鈥� and to 鈥渋nform the public about the internment . . . so as to prevent the recurrence of any similar event.鈥�

My mother remains a fiercely loyal American. She recently told us she wants 鈥淕od Bless America鈥� to be played at her funeral. I dearly hope that the work of the Japanese American redress movement and the lawmakers who passed the 1988 Civil Liberties Act have their intended effect of preventing a similar event 鈥� namely religious or national origin discrimination against Muslim Americans, immigrants, and visitors.

The 老澳门开奖结果 certainly will do everything in our power to prevent it.