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Internment Camps and the Immigration Debate

Japanese Internment Camps

July 19, 2019 – In 1941, during her fourth birthday party in Seattle, Nikki Nojima Louis saw her father arrested by FBI agents. It was December 7 and the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father was an immigrant from Japan and he ended up in a New Mexico detention camp. Nojima Louis and…

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The Line: Trump Administration Immigration Policy Prompts Lawsuit

The Line: Trump Administration Immigration Policy Prompts Lawsuit

June 14, 2019 – Gene Grant and the Line opinion panel examine a lawsuit filed this week by the State of New Mexico and the City of Albuquerque against the Trump Administration, seeking reinstatement of its “safe release” policy for asylum seekers and reimbursement of expenses incurred since the policy’s cancellation. Line Panelists: Martha Burk,…

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