Lots of people like to throw around the word "unprecedented” when they talk about U.S. President Donald Trump, especially now that he has taken the extraordinary step of invoking the Alien Enemies Act to circumvent due process and quickly deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a Salvadoran prison.
But none of those people are June Aochi Berk.
At 92 years old, the Los Angeles resident instead tells the story of how, as a child, she and 120,000 others of Japanese descent were dehumanized and forced into prison camps during World War II after another president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, invoked the same law. To Berk, Trump is merely repeating that shameful history and more Americans need to demand that he stop before we all regret it.
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