by GAIC_Admin | Aug 15, 2025 | Breaking News, Written Articles
On August 7, the San Antonio Current published an article by reporter Dean Zach— “Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II internment camps see terrifying parallels in Trump’s immigration crackdown.” Former Crystal City internees were...
by GAIC_Admin | Jul 6, 2025 | Audio, Breaking News, Ecuador, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews
On June 29th, 2025, NPR aired a Radio Diaries story called “Inside a U.S. plan to use immigrants in Latin America as WWII bartering chips.” Interviewees included Karin Harten Schramm, whose family were brought to the U.S. from Ecuador. Expecting to be...
by GAIC_Admin | May 28, 2025 | Breaking News, History, Multimedia, Video
John Schmitz, history professor at Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia, and author of Enemies Among Us: the Relocation, Internment & Repatriation of German, Italian & Japanese Americans During the Second World War, recently posted a video...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 18, 2025 | Breaking News, Events, Featured, Written Articles
Mother Jones magazine published an article on March18, 2025, written by Isabela Dias, entitled “The US Used the Alien Enemies Act to Detain Their Families. Now, They are Watching History Repeat.” Featuring the experiences of Heidi Gurcke Donald, who was brought...
by GAIC_Admin | Mar 18, 2025 | Breaking News, Featured, Written Articles
Karen Ebel, President of the German American Internee Coalition, and Grace Shimizu, Director of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project and Campaign for Justice: Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans! wrote an opinion piece for Time magazine, published March 17,...
by GAIC_Admin | Dec 13, 2024 | Audio, Breaking News, Events, Multimedia, Video
On December 10, 2024, the Brennan Center for Justice hosted “Analyzing Trump’s Plan to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act,” an hour-long discussion about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, its use in WWII, and its possible use in the Trump administration....
