The Trump administration has, for the fourth time in history, invoked the war-time Alien Enemies Act of 1798, even though our ...

Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese Americans in California and the U.S. as a whole. The order came in the wake of ...

Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...

Framing violations of laws and rights as necessary for “national security” reasons is a go-to tactic for authoritarian regimes.

ABDELFATAH: And then Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It authorized the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans. RUDALEVIGE: You know, ripping people from their homes and ...

Front and center as visitors enter the exhibit? An executive order from the desk of then-President Franklin Roosevelt. The notorious Order 9066 paved the way for imprisoning citizens, declaring ...

That involved President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 in 1942. It was the basis for the internment of around 112,000 people of Japanese descent, 70,000 of whom were American citizens.