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How memories of Japanese American imprisonment during WWII guided the US response to 9/11

PICT - Incarcerees receive gift of tea - Colorado Historic Preservation Inc.

As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started hearing calls from the public to ban Arab Americans and Muslims from all flights - and even to round them up and detain them.

Polis sends letter endorsing addition of former Japanese internment camp into NPS system

PICT Visitors to Camp Amache

(The Center Square) - Colorado Gov. Jared Polis sent a letter to the U.S. National Park Service this week in support of the agency adding a World War II Japanese internment camp in southeastern Colorado into the federal park system.