George Takei: Taking children from their parents at the border is worse than Japanese internment

George Takei wrote that the plight of detained immigrants at the U.S. border is worse than the Japanese internment camps he was forced into as a child “in one core, horrifying way.” He wasn’t separated from his family like the more than 2,000 children suffering due to Trump’s zero tolerance policy.

“At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents,” Takei wrote in an essay for Foreign Policy published on Tuesday. “We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves.” Read more…

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