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The last American concentration camp stayed open one extra day.
For 3,000 people, that was their last chance.

The process was anything but orderly.

Thousands of Japanese Americans — many labeled “disloyal” after answering “no” to the loyalty questionnaire — were facing deportation.

Under pressure, fear, and coercion, many had renounced their U.S. citizenship while incarcerated. Just a month earlier, 4,406 people from Tule Lake had left for Japan, including 1,116 renunciants, 1,523 aliens, and 1,767 U.S. citizens.

But more than 3,000 people realized maybe it wasn’t too late.

On March 19, 1946, they requested hearings to rescind their renunciations.

Attorney Wayne Collins would spend years fighting these cases, arguing that renunciations made under incarceration and duress were invalid.

Of the thousands initially targeted for deportation, the number was reduced to just 406.

Tule Lake, the last of the ten major WRA camps to close, officially shut down the next day.

But for many, the fight to reclaim their citizenship had only just begun.

406 renunciants and 43 of their family members were placed on a train and sent to the Department of Justice internment camp in Crystal City, Texas.

The lawsuit Collins initiated in November 1945 wound through the courts for fourteen years, ultimately restoring American citizenship to 4,978 stateless Nisei and Kibei.

Read more about Wayne Collins:
https://quietamericans.com/wayne-collins/

03/18/2026

Andrew Yang said his 2020 presidential campaign revealed how issues of technology, economic policy and representation intersect in American politics.

During an interview on Seattle magazine’s “Seattle” podcast released last week, the 51-year-old Taiwanese American entrepreneur and Forward Party co-founder recalled moments when other Asian Americans told him his candidacy made them feel newly visible. He also defended universal basic income, joking that concerns people would stop working miss the point: “I love work. I’m Asian, after all.”

Read the full story here: https://www.therebelyellow.com/p/andrew-yang-reflects-on-rising-asian?

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Surf Ninjas is such an underrated movie 🏄‍♂️

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