‘Able to happen again’: Local Japanese American historians warn of Trump’s use of 1798 wartime law

Kay Ochi’s parents were 21 and 22 years old when they were forced to leave San Diego, where they were born, and taken to an incarceration camp in the desert of Poston, Arizona, simply because of their Japanese heritage.
“That was three years of pure hell,” said Ochi, a third-generation Japanese American, or Sansei, who is president of the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego.
Kay Ochi, president of the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego, holds severa