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....
by GAIC_Admin | Dec 12, 2024 | Audio, Breaking News, Multimedia, Video & Radio Interviews
Two German reporters based in the U.S. recently had new reports about WWII German American internment on German radio. San Francisco-based Christoph Droesser’s report, “Unter Naziverdacht: Deutsche Internierte in den USA im Zweiten Weltkrieg,” was followed...
by GAIC_Admin | Nov 7, 2024 | Breaking News, Legislative Efforts, Related Legislation Archive
In mid-October, the Brennan Center at New York University School of Law issued The Alien Enemies Act: Unjust, Unnecessary, and Unconsititutional, a report decrying the continued existence of the Alien Enemies Act and calling for its repeal. Katherine Ebright, who...
