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, 2025—“Our Fathers were Interned Under the Alien Enemies Act. This Law Should be Repealed, not Revived.” Both Karen’s and Grace’s fathers were interned for years during WW War II, their internment declared permissible under the Alien Enemies Act, a law that allowed the wartime detention and deportation of noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian ancestry without any evidence of disloyalty. They write; “The Alien Enemies Act is a wartime authority, not a tool for presidents to use to address migration or even transnational criminal activity,” yet President Trump invoked the Act on March 15 to do just that.