Immigration Border Crisis

Stop Repeating History

Lawton, Oklahoma. 2019

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Accessed through yesmagazine.org (11/20/21)

Hundreds of immigrants flock to the United States and other countries to escape war, economic and political challenges, or natural disasters. When immigrants come to the United States, officials house them in detention centers with unsuitable living conditions. The photo depicts Japanese Americans, who were once held in concentration camps as children, clenching signs with their photographs from the camp. They protest the detention center, Fort Sill military base, which currently houses 1,400 migrant children (YesMagazine). These Japanese Americans are using their gruesome experiences in Japanese internment camps to bring awareness to the inhumane conditions facing immigrant children in detention centers today. The protestors wear traditional feathered garments and “Stop Repeating History” shirts. Their action gives a voice to the hundreds of migrant children that live in inhabitable conditions, including no basic supplies such as soap or blankets.