A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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apr 8, 2025, 2:13 am • 4 0 • view
If someone told me you’d type something like this EVER in my lifetime, there’s no way I could have ever imagined or believed it. We are boiling frogs.
apr 8, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
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apr 8, 2025, 6:58 am • 0 0 • view
Do something about it.... You have the power needed.
apr 8, 2025, 5:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Now you understand the reason why I say arm up I don't say that lightly
apr 8, 2025, 1:24 am • 4 0 • view
i think about this often because my play uncle and auntie would tell us 'it can happen again.' and i thought that they were just bananas. now look at how things are. auntie kumi and uncle pete were NOT wrong.
apr 8, 2025, 6:40 pm • 12 1 • view
1930: "Let's pass the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; it'll protect our economy!" 1932: Economy tanks Voters: "Time for a New Deal." Democrats: "Thanks, Smoot and Hawley, for the assist!"
apr 7, 2025, 8:32 pm • 11 1 • view
They learned from that though. There won't be another election this time.
apr 7, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Smoot Hawley wasn't passed by a fascist clown who wants to be dictator. The map will be all red when he takes control of the FEC.
apr 7, 2025, 8:35 pm • 7 0 • view
That, in sociology, is known as the beginning of "the era/age of reconstruction" in the US, where new social safety nets were erected, and existing ones strengthened. We've pinpointed the beginning of our current "era/age of erosion" with social safety nets being weakened as Regans administration.
apr 7, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 1 • view
How could we possibly know that this isn’t already happening?
apr 7, 2025, 8:42 pm • 3 0 • view
I remember too. Your people lost a lot of farms around Petaluma, CA, that's very valuable land now. What a mess. I think restitution is not very expensive, in the long run.
apr 7, 2025, 8:37 pm • 12 1 • view
Capitalism becomes cannibalism. Something valuable a billionaire wants? Deport the owner, fire the employees, disappear the funding.
apr 7, 2025, 9:15 pm • 11 1 • view
@rmayemsinger.bsky.social Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place.
apr 8, 2025, 1:40 am • 18 1 • view
The US government sold humans to El Salvador prison and paid them 6 million dollars of our tax dollars to do it.
apr 8, 2025, 1:57 am • 10 1 • view
What did Shatner say about that?
apr 8, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
You survived but will they EL SALVADOR Prison has an evil reputation
apr 8, 2025, 7:46 am • 1 0 • view
THEN DONT COME HERE! Dont COME HERE YOURSELF, and then play victim about it SEND THEM TO CANADA This could never happen to them in canada Send them to George Takei's house Where nobody can harm them, next door to George Takei
apr 8, 2025, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
Fck all bastards like you!
apr 8, 2025, 3:04 am • 2 0 • view
Gestapo is back
apr 7, 2025, 10:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Sharing your history With your iconic And well respected voice Makes an indelible impact Because of who you are Profoundly sorry and ashamed You and your family were Treated that way Thank you so much For doing all the good things That you do for all of us
apr 8, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 1 • view
Sorry about that.
apr 8, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
❤️
apr 10, 2025, 12:14 pm • 5 0 • view
this needs to spread as widely as possible
apr 7, 2025, 8:41 pm • 3 0 • view
THE TRUTH!
apr 8, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
A shameful moment in our history, so sorry you had to go through that. I’ve spoken to Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Sue Embry about Manzanar when I was in school. I don’t doubt (especially after today) that it could happen again.
apr 8, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
Shameful past actions are being made anew by malicious people.
apr 7, 2025, 8:31 pm • 13 1 • view
I am so sorry that your family was interned, it was inexcusable as you well know. I'm doing my best to stop it from happening again, but I'm not optimistic of success. 1200+ disappeared already.
apr 10, 2025, 4:07 am • 8 0 • view
That's what the cases in TX and NY are about. Hang in there. Things will become more clear about their fate soon.
apr 10, 2025, 6:22 am • 2 0 • view
@georgetakei.bsky.social This is absolutely terrifying
apr 7, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
this is exactly how they snatched people & sent them to auschwitz, dachau.
apr 8, 2025, 1:31 pm • 35 3 • view
I'm in disbelief that we're here again. And that so many people support it. Dark days ahead.
apr 8, 2025, 3:18 am • 25 3 • view
So true, George. Too many youngsters don't get that, and many of the folks who were alive when it happened are no longer with us. Sadly, the ding-a-ling in the White House never studied history at all and is stuck in Fantasyland.
apr 7, 2025, 11:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I never imagined that the injustice your family endured in America would be repeated. Instead, children have been separated from families (w/hundreds never reunited, green card holders, U.S. citizens and those seeking asylum are being deported, along w/violent gang members to prison in El Salvador.
apr 8, 2025, 12:29 pm • 11 0 • view
This country imported slaves, forced them to have children who were then sold off/separated from their parents. Ripped native children from their homes and allowed them to be abused by priests/nuns. Stole homes/business and imprisoned Japanese families. If there's one thing I'm not, it's surprised.
apr 8, 2025, 8:04 pm • 2 1 • view
I am more disgusted than surprised that collectively most Americans haven’t learned much from our past history. Erasing American history, deleting people and historic events while claiming that DEI creates division is a crucial step practiced by those on the road to autocracy.
apr 8, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Should never have happened in the first place.
apr 8, 2025, 2:49 pm • 6 0 • view
“can” becomes “will” and then “does” faster than we might expect.
apr 8, 2025, 4:22 am • 3 0 • view
Boom!!! Exactly.
apr 8, 2025, 4:39 am • 2 0 • view
And I'm sorry for what your family endured. We need to prevent it from happening again. We can't without first getting rid of people like trump and musk. A bipartisan Congress needs to take action NOW.
apr 7, 2025, 8:42 pm • 2 1 • view
As a member of the LGBTQ community I am terrified. How long until they start rounding us up too and start throwing us into camps for “mandatory conversion therapy”
apr 8, 2025, 12:24 pm • 35 3 • view
The moment they do, they'll meet at least some resistance on my end... though... there's only so much one person with a rifle can do.
apr 8, 2025, 4:07 pm • 4 1 • view
Unfortunately, your fear is justified. This is prewar Germany.
apr 8, 2025, 2:05 pm • 2 1 • view
The protests against Frump and Felon should start including our Supreme Corrupt Court and their blatant disregard of the constitution!
apr 8, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Do you know a person I used to know called Gordon Sato from Mazingria?
apr 7, 2025, 8:51 pm • 4 0 • view
How the hell do we know they haven't done this already?
apr 7, 2025, 8:31 pm • 30 0 • view
They detained a Native American said her documents were from a foreign entity. Sigh
apr 7, 2025, 8:51 pm • 39 3 • view
Wow. Hadn't heard about that. So hard to keep up with the torrent of horrible news. SMH
apr 7, 2025, 8:52 pm • 17 0 • view
They also tried to deport Puerto Ricans in Chicago. Companies run the ICE prisons. The more ppl in there, the more $ they get. No incentive to investigate cases. There are near starvation conditions. Ppl can ask families to put credit on their prison accounts to buy food. It is a corrupt system.
apr 7, 2025, 9:05 pm • 37 1 • view
Concentration camp
apr 8, 2025, 4:21 am • 5 0 • view
We need to do away with private prisons. And stop believing the bullshit that privatization saves the government money.
apr 8, 2025, 12:25 am • 24 1 • view
Wait… wat? They tried to deport Puerto Ricans? I’m so confused. To where? Back to where they came from… the United States territory of PR??? How does that work…?
apr 8, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
They are deporting people to the concentration camp in El Salvador.
apr 8, 2025, 4:33 pm • 3 0 • view
This is a pretty good reason why real history needs to be taught and not whitewashed. I love your books by the way! I’m happy my children can learn the true history of Japanese Americans with your first hand account. bookshop.org/p/books/my-l...
apr 8, 2025, 9:59 am • 48 10 • view
I think we all need to keep our demonstrating-in-the-streets shoes by the front door.
apr 9, 2025, 9:37 pm • 5 0 • view
It's even worse: the government is kidnapping people off the streets who did nothing wrong and is sending them off-shore to a prison in a foreign country. From where they can never be extracted, as they claim. And all this without a warrant or due process.
apr 8, 2025, 4:52 am • 33 1 • view
Yes, but I’m pretty sure the Trump Administration has a color and religious test. I’m good but my wife and son aren’t. I can alway lie about the religious part since I have a Catholic background.
apr 8, 2025, 1:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Hitler killed Catholics too It’s random bc trump is literally insane and it’s allowed bc it’s meant to invoke terror which is useful to controlling us. No one is safe Next they’ll turn on each other in loyalty tests It’s already happening.
apr 8, 2025, 1:38 pm • 6 0 • view
I’m going to be sick. Someone needs to stop him. Enough is enough. It’s not even 4 months he’s in power…. and the crimes are piling up already.
apr 7, 2025, 8:38 pm • 8 0 • view
George, don’t forget Obama had US citizens killed without due process… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...
apr 8, 2025, 6:03 am • 3 0 • view
Whataboutery at it's finest.
apr 8, 2025, 6:19 am • 3 0 • view
No due process…killing civilians. Call it what you want, it was an attack on the the rights an American citizen has.
apr 8, 2025, 6:32 am • 0 0 • view
How long has the U.S. Constitution applied in Yemen? There are many things wrong with that case, but rights the U.S. Constitution confers apply only on American soil - where the American Constitution applies. This is also why El Salvador is being paid to run a prison for America.
apr 8, 2025, 7:02 am • 1 0 • view
Supposedly the El Salvador prison is for those nonlegal residents and by being on US soil are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, I’m not sure about the right to be returned to one’s country of origin, but the Trump administrations illegality have never been in question.
apr 8, 2025, 1:40 pm • 0 0 • view
While I understand George’s warning, it is hardly a new concern. The President with executive power, through emergency declaration can remove your constitutional rights, and this happened under FDR, under Obama and now again. The abdication of responsibilities by Congress is my concern
apr 8, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
The right to due process and the right to a trial are rights guaranteed to American citizens by the American Constitution, the location of the citizen doesn’t matter. Just because a citizen is anywhere in the world, they don’t lose that protection from the US government
apr 8, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
🌺 and I’m sorry 😞
apr 13, 2025, 5:00 am • 2 0 • view
Very true. Seems like the pieces are being moved into place to disappear trans people via a one-way trip to El Salvador.
apr 8, 2025, 7:35 am • 3 0 • view
As a 442nd veteran had commented and I’m paraphrasing, “… the Constitution is just a piece of paper, it has no power to protect you…”
apr 7, 2025, 8:42 pm • 3 0 • view
History can and does repeat...
apr 24, 2025, 4:51 am • 3 0 • view
And that shit should never happen again. It was fucked up then and it is fucked up now. It needs to stop!
apr 13, 2025, 2:56 pm • 4 1 • view
That’s pretty much where we are right now, somewhere around 1942.
apr 8, 2025, 4:48 am • 2 0 • view
No apology is strong enough. No one should have to endure that.
apr 8, 2025, 3:26 am • 3 0 • view
This story makes me physically ill. We need to do whatever it takes to get ALL of those people out of there and stop this madness! Our tax dollars are pay for this brutal prison in El Salvador!!
apr 7, 2025, 10:33 pm • 5 0 • view
you're a true voice in this crazy time.
apr 8, 2025, 7:12 am • 1 0 • view
To King Joffrey! Long may he reign!!
apr 7, 2025, 8:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Unfortunately, you know from personal experience what happens when the people allow their government to have unlimited, unchecked power over its citizens. This will not end well for the U.S.
apr 8, 2025, 12:28 pm • 11 3 • view
What book is this?
apr 8, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
SCOTUS is a death cult member.
apr 8, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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apr 8, 2025, 12:49 am • 3 0 • view
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apr 8, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view
It has DONE SO REPEATEDLY. I’m living proof & was married 2 interned JA family. No reading of rights/charges. Taken to jail naked in middle of night, blind, no keys, no ID, no phone. No lawyer altho requested. No phone access for 48 hrs. No arraignment. No bail. Held in isolation. Released naked.
apr 13, 2025, 6:45 pm • 3 0 • view
if ? they are doing it already.
apr 8, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
We visited Amache National Historic site in 2023. One of this nation’s darkest hours putting citizens in these camps. Never thought it would happen again. Disgusting. #japaneseintermentcamp
apr 8, 2025, 2:33 pm • 6 0 • view
I'm so sorry you and your family had to go through such an awful experience. I'm sure everything happening today brings back those terrifying days. Stay close to your family and love them. 🫶
apr 8, 2025, 12:51 am • 1 0 • view
Have you seen this 60-minute segment - Are we Nazis now? youtu.be/_QmW99SqBuw
apr 8, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 1 • view
We were before and nobody cared enough to save us. We will be again and they're just going to laugh at us instead of doing the right thing for all of humanity.
apr 9, 2025, 11:31 am • 0 0 • view
I remember learning of you & your family's internment encampment during his first reign of terror. Hatred is so ingratiated in the GOP & it's worshipers.Their character is reflected in their cheerful approval of each of these atrocities. May they get everything they deserve.
apr 8, 2025, 2:06 am • 2 0 • view
💔 It's unbearable. I'm so sorry sir that you and your family went thru this. Horrific that you went thru this and unbelievable that it is happening again.
apr 8, 2025, 2:30 am • 4 0 • view
This is terrifying!
apr 8, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
Just wait, De-Naturalization is coming too. They have no morality at all, none.
apr 8, 2025, 4:26 pm • 11 1 • view
That possibility worries me tremendously, on a personal level, because one of my closest friends is a naturalized citizen. Melania and her father are naturalized citizens (as was her late mother). Usha vance’s parents are also naturalized citizens. The regime will dance around those facts, somehow.
apr 9, 2025, 2:47 am • 2 0 • view
❤️
apr 8, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
Also this is happening rn. www.businessinsider.com/which-republ...
apr 7, 2025, 8:43 pm • 5 0 • view
As cool as this is, lets call it what it is: an act of self-preservation, not altruism.
apr 7, 2025, 9:07 pm • 3 0 • view
It's a crack in the GOP is what it is.
apr 7, 2025, 9:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Hopefully, this one lasts. We've had a few false starts so far, but I well and truly hope that this is the real start of the GOP eating itself 💜
apr 7, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Let's hope.
apr 7, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
In Trump's own words "I would love that" Not one scintilla of a human reaction. An absolutely repugnant little being enabled by sycophants and a political party that has no care or concern for the people of the USA or the rest of the world.
apr 8, 2025, 9:18 am • 13 2 • view
trump may be immune from the US law, but he's not immune from the Hague.
apr 8, 2025, 1:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes he is, who’s going to make him go there? Same reason he’s immune to our laws, who’s going to make him follow them?
apr 8, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Live close to the middle of the Utah desert there is still nothing there but despair and HOPE I could feel the Hope of the human beings never again is what WE PROMISED Standing next you George
apr 7, 2025, 8:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I stand with You George
apr 7, 2025, 8:36 pm • 6 0 • view
If they can take away due process for a single person, then due process no longer exists for anyone.
apr 8, 2025, 8:17 am • 45 5 • view
That’s the point. GOP wants everyone afraid.
apr 8, 2025, 5:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Absolutely deplorable, no wonder that the current administration doesn’t have any fear of violating people’s rights.
apr 7, 2025, 9:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump abused due process to squirm out of all accountability and then discarded it to falsely accuse and disappear people. Next time he's prosecuted, I hope justice is swift and harsh.
apr 8, 2025, 2:17 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed! This is the number one story of all the daily chaos.
apr 7, 2025, 8:59 pm • 3 0 • view
100% true. No one is immune to abuse of power
apr 11, 2025, 1:34 am • 2 0 • view
My mother told me recently how she remembered in the 40s walking by shuttered businesses in East LA & my Grandfather (an immigrant) would see the signs 🪧 indicated the owner had been Japanese American and said “Poor bastard..”. I meet my grandfather once before he returned to UK.
apr 8, 2025, 7:58 am • 2 0 • view
Plus, they're working on revoking birthright. It puts EVERY SINGLE PERSON born in the USA at risk of deportation.
apr 8, 2025, 12:16 pm • 44 5 • view
But each loyal Trumpian thinks they will be OK. It needs to affect those close to them for realisation to happen
apr 8, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 1 • view
Human trafficking is another term for slave traders. Same MO. Kidnapping into forced labor.
apr 8, 2025, 9:00 am • 12 3 • view
Because there is no distinction in the guarantee of Due Process under the Fifth between citizens and any other person in these United States.
apr 8, 2025, 5:11 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. Everyone’s priority should be saving and protecting the constitution and our rights. Somewhere along the way, a lot of people have lost sight of this.
apr 8, 2025, 2:38 pm • 10 1 • view
💔
apr 8, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
This must be so horrific for you. I'm so sorry you have to see your literal nightmares coming true.
apr 7, 2025, 9:46 pm • 2 0 • view
If one law can be broken without consequence, any law can be broken without consequence.
apr 7, 2025, 8:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Exactly
apr 8, 2025, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s so disheartening that our country has become the bad guy again, George. I really hope we don’t slip back into doing any more of those atrocities committed during WWII. These disappearances are scary.
apr 8, 2025, 5:32 pm • 4 1 • view
Sir, I recall hearing you speak about that experience in Jasper at Dark Skies a few years ago. It was chilling then, but at least we could believe it wouldn't ever repeat. It's sickening to see that coming again.
apr 8, 2025, 4:44 am • 10 0 • view
This is true. “Human rights” so far has proven to be an illusion. And if folks don’t believe that, ask that innocent man in El Salvador what he thinks or the parents of all the dead kids in Palestine who will never see justice PS: not a supporter of anything, only the innocent.
apr 8, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
Since the trump/GOP CABAL has demonstrated they are perfectly happy and willing to eliminate due process, they can do ANYTHING to ANYBODY! Nobody is safe! NOBODY! WE ARE ALL IN DANGER! #MATA Make America Think Again! #USDemocracy
apr 8, 2025, 1:51 pm • 27 13 • view
Ah, there’s the problem. I suspect for decades the American public has been conditioned to responding emotionally rather than rationally - something to do with a culture of marketing perhaps
apr 8, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Not to take away the horrific things that happened to your family, but what Trump is doing is even more evil than what happened to your family.
apr 7, 2025, 9:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Horrible it happened
apr 7, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I am seething
apr 8, 2025, 9:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Maybe one day we will deport maga christian confederate nazis communist out. The partners in hate be gone.
apr 8, 2025, 12:04 pm • 1 0 • view
And have we learned anything since then?
apr 13, 2025, 2:13 pm • 4 0 • view
This post should make people shit themselves.
apr 8, 2025, 3:41 pm • 7 0 • view
:(
apr 7, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
How long before we have to carry around “papers” proving that we are US Citizens? Our birth certificate, social security card, US passport, whatever documentation we need to prove that we aren’t here illegally even if we are US born and our family has been here for generations.
apr 8, 2025, 11:32 am • 27 5 • view
and will it matter? Those papers can be taken away and lost.
apr 8, 2025, 11:55 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly. Will it matter?
apr 8, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
Trump is knowingly deporting US citizens to send the message that anyone against his regime is fair game.
apr 8, 2025, 12:14 pm • 2 1 • view
No one cares. Trump is deporting US citizens.
apr 8, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 1 • view
Some latinos have already begun doing that- or putting a copy of birth certificate in their small child’s backpack, in case the school is raided and the child caught up without the parent there.
apr 8, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 1 • view
I suspect even having a passport might categorise you as suspicious to many MAGAs
apr 8, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
And how many women's names don't match the birth certificate.
apr 8, 2025, 12:25 pm • 18 2 • view
Mine. I’d have to carry around copies of my divorce decrees too. My name has changed twice and I never went back to my maiden name.
apr 8, 2025, 12:26 pm • 13 2 • view
Neither did I. I left it for my kid. Who is now 19. Now, I'm too lazy to deal with it. But, thinking on the name thing. It would be a way to get rid of trans people as well.
apr 8, 2025, 12:30 pm • 10 1 • view
apr 8, 2025, 1:35 pm • 5 1 • view
🙏
apr 8, 2025, 11:16 am • 5 0 • view
Trump just said he’d be happy to send American prisoners from our prisons to El Salvador. So the quiet part is again loud and clear. And MAGA will clap their hands like weak seals.
apr 7, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
A shameful period. Australia, my country did much the same with people whose ancestry was from Axis nations. There were few Japanese interns. This was due to an equally shameful policy of 'White Australia'.
apr 9, 2025, 2:36 am • 5 0 • view
That was the Roosevelt government too wasn’t it?
apr 8, 2025, 4:40 am • 3 0 • view
Also, they can just say that you’re not a citizen, and if you have no access to the courts then how would you even be able to prove them wrong?!? It’s due process for all or due process for none. That’s the choice.
apr 8, 2025, 9:00 am • 10 0 • view
You think the pearl harbor attack and declaration of war. Was the same as deporting criminal gangs? Grow up.
apr 8, 2025, 10:59 am • 1 0 • view
No, no one thinks it's the same fucking thing which is why it's absolutely ridiculous that Trump would drag this tired old bitch of a law out of the depths of hell just to repeat a history of the U.S. incarcerating people based on race & without due process.
apr 8, 2025, 11:25 am • 5 0 • view
So what should we do with the gangs?
apr 8, 2025, 11:34 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, you expect me to believe in your sincere interest to solve the worlds problems? Okay, I'll play. By gangs do you mean all 600 or so of the Tren de Aragua? I guess I just thought we could probably address it without invoking a national crisis & paying 6 million dollars to a foreign country.
apr 8, 2025, 11:52 am • 5 0 • view
Except most of the deported have no criminal record. www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re... And it's already affecting US citizens. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
apr 8, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
Most? You sure about that?
apr 8, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
I'm no math expert, but last I checked 75% did indicate a majority. And quite a significant one.
apr 8, 2025, 11:43 am • 2 0 • view
😥😥😥
apr 7, 2025, 8:36 pm • 2 0 • view
apr 8, 2025, 5:41 am • 69 13 • view
Stand up fight back! The National Immigration Law Center states that even undocumented immigrants have certain basic rights under the U.S. Constitution.The Constitution also guarantees that no state shall deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law". www.nilc.org
apr 8, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I am so glad you made it out. I fear that this man may already be dead. Shameful.
apr 7, 2025, 8:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Although not incarcerated, my gtgrandfather had to anglicise his name to continue his trade as a butcher. His grandfather emigrated in 1870!
apr 8, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
Also 1940s, sorry i left that bit out.
apr 8, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
😥
apr 8, 2025, 6:56 am • 2 0 • view
There’s only one citizen I want to see disappeared…
apr 8, 2025, 7:00 am • 1 0 • view
Who does everyone think the scores of new detention camps and expanded agreement with El Salvador are for?? Answer: ANYONE they want to get rid of for any reason.
apr 8, 2025, 9:56 pm • 13 2 • view
Those of us who know history know how thin a barrier there is between liberty and tyranny.
apr 8, 2025, 6:15 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you for continuing to be an unrelenting reminder of this, Uncle George! We all need to hear this again and again until the unjustified kidnapping of people is stopped and those responsible are held accountable.
apr 8, 2025, 2:08 am • 14 1 • view
Sam Mihara, survivor of Heart Mountain, WY spoke at our college in 2015, emploring us to never forget & never go down this road again. Here we are, taking the same road to hell. www.heartmountain.org
apr 13, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 1 • view
The normalization of this kind of action, wrapped in a warp sense of patriotism is what scares me. This is a slide we shouldn’t be moving toward.
apr 8, 2025, 12:49 am • 12 0 • view
So very Sorry, George 😖🥺😭
apr 8, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
I am so sorry that happened to you, I had the misfortune of seeing those buildings where they housed the Japanese people during that time, I could only weep.
apr 8, 2025, 3:12 am • 2 0 • view
It’s fucked up, George; but you have said it was also a sexy, sexy experience for young you ;) Love you, Mr Takei!
apr 8, 2025, 10:20 pm • 3 0 • view
My mother's best friend and her family were sent to one too. It was awful.
apr 8, 2025, 4:44 am • 7 0 • view
And it will
apr 8, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
Hit the heart button. Didn’t want to. But you’re spot on and people need to see this!
apr 8, 2025, 3:33 am • 3 0 • view
This happened to my wife’s grandparents too, George. They took their store, home, money…everything. It’s a stain on this country that I fear is repeating.
apr 7, 2025, 11:26 pm • 27 1 • view
Trump has to declare war (presumably against someone other than the US), doesn't he?
apr 8, 2025, 6:02 am • 1 1 • view
Morgan J Freeman is saying the 25th Amendment - I have said it since the beginning!!
apr 8, 2025, 7:17 pm • 6 0 • view
25th Amendment!
apr 8, 2025, 7:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I contacted my Rep, Michael Baumgartner (R). He doesn't reply to anything, he doesn't appear in public, he doesn't make statements. He's a complete #twat. But that's what I have right now: participating in @indivisible.org events and trying to get a message through the walls to my Rep.
apr 8, 2025, 5:13 pm • 18 2 • view
Well, not long from now, Rep. Michael Baumgartner may need to make new friends. I've kept making calls to all our electeds District Offices and D.C. offices. Keep at it . . .
apr 9, 2025, 10:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Same! VOTE HIM OUT!!
apr 9, 2025, 8:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess we have to get used to it or nominate a person someone in our district has heard of. This district is ripe for a turn away from the GOP. Go to the northern counties, who vote 75% GOP, and ask them what they get in return for their support? The highest unemployment in the state. Chronic.
apr 8, 2025, 5:56 pm • 7 2 • view
Not dismissing what happened to you, but at least you were in the country. Their current excuse is "They're in El Salvador. We have no control" even though they are paying El Salvador for their upkeep. Frightening.
apr 8, 2025, 3:23 pm • 3 0 • view
We tried to be better and added protections against internment camps on us soil… someone had to go looking for loopholes.
apr 8, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
His spokesperson just said he has been TALKING about doing exactly that.
apr 8, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Bingo! bsky.app/profile/ones...
apr 8, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
😢
apr 13, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m so sorry George. This is beyond terrible and must cause you particular stress…
apr 9, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0 • view
If these neighborhoods don't fight back for their people, they will only get more brazen. Let me catch them in price hill, they gonna have to get us ALL! And we strapped heavy up here!
apr 8, 2025, 12:09 pm • 2 0 • view
apr 16, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you for speaking about that painful truth.
apr 13, 2025, 4:58 am • 14 2 • view
I’m so sorry this happened to you and your family. And it is starting again- scary as ?!!$
apr 8, 2025, 5:01 am • 4 0 • view
The most dangerous prison in the Americas awaits any perceived enemy of Trump - either by intention, or by ‘accident’
apr 7, 2025, 8:38 pm • 7 0 • view
I've heard 2 versions, 1 where they had documentation that he's a gang member, 2 it was an accident but we're not bringing him home. And I also heard he's on a plane back right now. Time will tell how this travesty ends.
apr 7, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Musk said on camera in the Oval Office that funding had been reinstated to Ebola Prevention. I have seen no evidence that it has; but that funding is included in court documents fighting reinstatement of funding to multiple things, implying that it has not been reinstated They lie as they breathe.
apr 8, 2025, 7:09 am • 2 0 • view
Again: My parents who served as Marines in WWII drove us out to see the internment camp in AZ so we would know it should never happen again. And here we are...
apr 8, 2025, 12:49 am • 92 4 • view
So very, very sorry that we are here again 🤬🤬 We all have to fight to turn this around and get rid of this criminal regime!!
apr 8, 2025, 5:57 am • 4 0 • view
#BINGO
apr 8, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
If the government points its finger and says we are all criminals, our democracy and rule of law demands our ability to say, "prove it!"
apr 8, 2025, 5:13 pm • 5 1 • view
I feel like this is the real test of the judiciary. If they rule in trumps favor, his presidency can only end with blood in the streets. If they rule against him, AS THEY SHOULD, it will be a test of Congress to hold him accountable as he will no doubt refuse to comply.
apr 7, 2025, 8:53 pm • 13 1 • view
Personally, I don't have faith in either option, never mind both.
apr 7, 2025, 8:55 pm • 8 0 • view
I have more (a little more) faith that SCOTUS will rule against him than Congress would impeach him. I also have very little faith that he will be held accountable either way.
apr 7, 2025, 8:59 pm • 5 1 • view
apr 7, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
The cat and I'm allergic to them! 😅
apr 8, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't like cat's but the pussycat is coming with me.
apr 7, 2025, 9:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Call it what it is CONCENTRATION CAMPS, stop pussy footing around
apr 7, 2025, 9:39 pm • 4 0 • view
I feel ya
apr 8, 2025, 2:14 am • 2 0 • view
We don't know each other, but trust me when I say I'm personally sorry that you had to see this again.
apr 9, 2025, 4:13 am • 4 0 • view
I have your book on it @georgetakei.bsky.social! I actually haven’t finished reading it:/ I’ve had it for ages and really need to finish it now more than ever!
apr 8, 2025, 3:14 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm so sorry.
apr 7, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m ashamed of our country every time you mention this. As a kid, it must have been horrible.
apr 8, 2025, 12:28 am • 8 0 • view
How about giving the cabinet of clowns a nice long vacay in such a place?
apr 8, 2025, 4:09 pm • 2 0 • view
😢
apr 7, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
😥
apr 9, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
So sorry that happened to you. It was horrible and wrong then and it is even MORE horrible now. WHEN are we going to stop the hate and LEARN the LESSONS that HISTORY can teach us.
apr 7, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Goddess sir I’m so sorry that idiots don’t learn from history 🫤🤯
apr 7, 2025, 8:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Mine too. Minidoka. They lost everything and were kept for three years.
apr 8, 2025, 7:19 am • 7 0 • view
That's what the Gang Leader, the Golden Calf, is already talking about...and regarding his comments about the law, since when does he care about the law... www.8newsnow.com/news/nationa...
apr 7, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
There seems to be a lot of uncertainty about the people kidnapped and sent to a foreign prison. Are they gang members? Show us the fucking proof!
apr 8, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view
@georgetakei.bsky.social I know you’ve written extensively about this but could you please give a brief post about the long term impact this had on you personally?
apr 7, 2025, 8:42 pm • 5 0 • view
People need to remember that "checking whether you're a citizen or not" is part of due process. And if they're denied due process nobody will check (or care) if they're a citizen.
apr 8, 2025, 1:55 pm • 8 1 • view
That’s how the Maryland guy got deported- if ANY judge or court officer had spoken to him or read his file, they’d have seen that he had legal status to stay AND work. It’s annoying to have an admin skim through all the paperwork, but it’s important.
apr 8, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Those of us who know - heed your warning. I applaud you for speaking out about this horrific time in your life and many others lives as you have for so long . 👏🏼
apr 7, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
It is clearly his plan to incarcerate EVERYONE that does not agree with him. It's only a matter of time before he comes for 🫵
apr 15, 2025, 6:57 pm • 1 0 • view
My 90 year old aunt (seen here with our dog pack) & her family were sent to the same camp as yours, George. Never shows resentment or bitterness over the experience, so a far better person than me.
apr 8, 2025, 2:43 pm • 79 4 • view
Mine too - Jerome and Tule Lake allumi.
apr 11, 2025, 2:50 am • 5 0 • view
Unfortunately your government is using past mistakes as a how to guide, therefore not learning the lessons to make better decisions.
apr 8, 2025, 12:23 am • 5 0 • view
How is it even possible that the AEA hasn't been abolished long ago? I mean it's pure nazi playbook "law".
apr 8, 2025, 12:42 am • 4 0 • view
ICE investigation tipline menu on continued redial: We are currently experiencing a higher call volume than normal” “We are currently experiencing a longer wait time than normal”
apr 8, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view
This here ☝️ History may not repeat it does rhyme
apr 8, 2025, 12:51 am • 2 0 • view
Gaman 🙏🏾
apr 8, 2025, 2:39 am • 3 0 • view
Thank you for speaking about your experience.
apr 8, 2025, 4:55 am • 4 0 • view
Did you know that the students of Big Pine Unified School played baseball with a team from Manzanar in 1943?
apr 9, 2025, 4:44 am • 3 0 • view
This IS the plan.....
apr 8, 2025, 2:45 pm • 3 0 • view
I guess the question now is, which group will they come after first?
apr 8, 2025, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
And people lost everything. Just like the Jews in Europe. That was part of the theft then, too. People were wealthy and people were envious of what they had, and the people “were disappeared” and were put in concentration camps. That’s how it started with Hitler. Greed. Prejudice. Hate.
apr 8, 2025, 7:49 am • 30 7 • view
“This is a kind of strongman arrangement where it doesn’t really matter what the facts are, because what really matters is that one person controls things. And it certainly doesn’t really matter what the law is. There might be laws on the books, they might exist…” youtu.be/k6fpu_9S31c?...
apr 8, 2025, 8:18 am • 13 9 • view
He's already done it to one legal citizen and scotus has put a pause on him being returned.
apr 7, 2025, 10:52 pm • 14 0 • view
He sure did 😪
apr 7, 2025, 11:17 pm • 4 0 • view
I am so sorry for the pain and suffering you and your family went through. My heart breaks at the cruelty of mankind. But it also lightens my heart to see so much kindness and wisdom from those who survived such crucibles. You live in honor and give hope. Thank you.
apr 7, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
This is still why my sister in law who is Japanese will not travel to the states. I wanted to meet my brother and her in Hawaii a few times but she got detained the last time for 8 hours.
apr 8, 2025, 6:38 pm • 14 1 • view
She's being sensible.
apr 8, 2025, 9:57 pm • 2 0 • view
So much for "The Great Melting Pot." 🙄 NONE of this makes any sense at all. Next he'll want deport everyone who's not a Native American...until he realizes his heritage is German/Scottish.
apr 8, 2025, 9:05 pm • 1 1 • view
The more I see your posts about your experience the more my heart aches for you and your family’s experiences
apr 8, 2025, 6:41 am • 1 0 • view
I am so sorry that you have to see this shit happening AGAIN.
apr 8, 2025, 10:33 am • 15 1 • view
I loved your book They Called Us Enemy. Very moving & informative. The graphic novel format is very powerful.
apr 7, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
My mother and sister heard you speak about it. On behalf of all of the American citizens who KNEW this was wrong, I humbly apologize for what you and your family went through. Hate backed by power is terrifying to all.
apr 7, 2025, 9:09 pm • 4 0 • view
I don't what its going to take to stop the Felon-in-chief, but we must figure it out, and soon! #RESIST #STOPFELON47
apr 7, 2025, 8:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Send Musk and Trump to stay in Guantanamo for a few years
apr 7, 2025, 10:01 pm • 5 0 • view
Not according to the latest batch of approved 'Amerikkkan history' books.
apr 8, 2025, 5:19 am • 3 0 • view
Please keep speaking out George! We need your reminders of what can happen history on down to now!
apr 8, 2025, 12:43 am • 3 0 • view
Shameful part of our history. Now it is being repeated and once to innocent people.
apr 8, 2025, 6:26 am • 2 0 • view
apr 8, 2025, 3:44 pm • 4 0 • view
I’m so sorry you have to live through this again.
apr 8, 2025, 11:49 am • 3 0 • view
At least they admit, they made a mistake. But they also claim they can’t undo that mistake, because they don’t have any jurisdiction in El Salvador.
apr 7, 2025, 8:51 pm • 4 0 • view
The same thing happened to Dr. David Suzuki in Canada when he was a child.
apr 8, 2025, 12:58 am • 4 0 • view