Trump's Internment of Immigrants in Camps: A Reminder of Darkest Times in Our History

During WWII, the white trash of this country interned Japanese Americans in concentration camps in the desert. They also interned Italian Americans and German Americans in concentration camps in the desert. "Race" is such a stupid criterion in judging a person or a group, but expect no less from Fascist morons like Trump and his ilk.

These were not immigrants. They were second, third and fourth-generation US-born Americans. Yet their "race" made them suspicious in the eyes of a Fascist moronic white trash majority. 

Now they are interning immigrants and Americans in concentration camps also based on their Latin American "race". They might as well intern 20% of the US population (some 70 million Americans declare themselves as Hispanic or Latino) before they become 30% as estimated by 2060, at which time non-Hispanic whites would have become the largest minority group in the country and no longer a majority. This is fundamentally why white trash racists like Trump and the GOP are persecuting Latin American immigrants in a desperate and futile attempt to "Keep American Euro-White". 

Shouldn't Trump's fascist morons be persecuting and interning Iranian-Americans?

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AI says:

During World War II, the United States classified citizens of Japan, Germany, and Italy as "enemy aliens," leading to the surveillance, restriction, and internment of hundreds of thousands of individuals of these nationalities. While Japanese Americans faced mass incarceration via Executive Order 9066, Italian Americans and German Americans were subjected to individual hearings, forced relocations from coastal zones, and the internment of a smaller subset deemed high-risk.

Key differences in treatment included:

Scale and Scope: Approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed and incarcerated in War Relocation Authority camps. In contrast, roughly 600,000 Italian Americans faced restrictions like curfews and travel bans, with only about 3,000 to 4,000 actually interned in Justice Department or Army camps.

Due Process: Japanese Americans were interned as a group based on race without individual hearings. Italian and German detainees were typically subject to individual review boards that determined if they should be released, paroled, or interned based on evidence of subversive activity.

Demographics: The Japanese internment included both non-citizen immigrants and U.S. citizens. The internment of Italians and Germans primarily affected non-citizen immigrants and naturalization applicants, though some U.S. citizens were detained if they had demonstrated allegiance to Axis powers.

Geographic Focus: Japanese internment was concentrated on the West Coast. Italian and German internees were often held in facilities inland (such as Fort Missoula in Montana or Crystal City in Texas) and were frequently housed separately from Japanese detainees.
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Federal appeals court compares Trump migrant detention policy to Japanese American internment
Louis Casiano
Thu, September 10, 2026

A federal court has rejected the Trump administration's policy of detaining migrants on bond without a chance for release, comparing it to the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.

A Trump administration policy to detain migrants on bond without a chance for release harkens back to the mass detention of Japanese Americans during World War II, a federal court said Thursday.

In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's mass detention policy, a major part of President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda.

"Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country's history," the court wrote.

Nine federal appeals courts have now separately ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) new mandatory detention policy is illegal, concluding it could apply to recent arrivals at or near the border but not to migrants determined to be living elsewhere within the country.

Two other appeals courts have upheld it, meaning the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to take up the case in its upcoming term.

Immigrant rights groups say basic due process is being violated when longtime residents are denied bond hearings during removal proceedings.

"The courts have resoundingly rejected the administration's cruel policy and its blatant disrespect for the rule of law," said My Khanh Ngo, senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project. "We are thrilled for our clients and their families."

Mass arrests of suspected illegal immigrants during President Donald Trump's second term have prompted widespread protests, particularly in Democratic-led cities like Chicago. In July 2025, the administration announced it would detain every migrant found anywhere in the U.S. whom ICE determines was not granted permission to enter.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said the agency was disappointed with Thursday's decision but said it recently sought a Supreme Court review of a similar decision from the 6th Circuit.

Writing for the majority, 4th Circuit Judge Nicole Berner invoked the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as a warning against sweeping executive detention authority without due process.

"The stain of these detentions on our nation — and the judiciary's abdication of its obligation to protect basic freedoms — continues to haunt us," Berner wrote.