Posted on 04/09/2021 10:37:05 AM PDT by TedMartin
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, one of the places Japanese Americans were held during World War II, will serve as an emergency shelter for unaccompanied children who have crossed the border into the United States, L.A. County has announced.
Hilda Solis, chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday the decision was made after discussions with the Biden White House.
The Biden administration has contacted communities throughout the nation to find space for undocumented children being sheltered in Border Patrol facilities. It even urged, unsuccessfully, that NASA employees go to the border to volunteer in the overcrowded camps.
Also known as the Pomona Fairplex, the mega-facility in the city of Pomona is the third in Southern California to serve in that capacity.
In 1942, months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the detention of Japanese Americans, fearing they would be loyal to the emperor of Japan.
The Pomona location was selected as one of the camps. A California Historic Landmark plaque near Fairplex, at around 1099 West McKinley Avenue, Pomona, commemorates the event.
Opened in May 1942, the detention camp had 309 barracks, 8 mess halls, and 36 shower and latrine facilities. It reached a peak population of more than 5,000 before it closed later in the year. Most of the internees were transferred to another camp in Wyoming.
Today, the location serves as the Fairplex parking lot. In recent months, it has hosted one of L.A. County’s mega Covid-19 vaccination sites.
“Los Angeles County has a responsibility and an opportunity to care for unaccompanied minors coming to the United States,” Solis said. “This is not a border crisis – but, instead, it is everyone’s crisis.”
Long Beach and San Diego have both pledged to convert their convention centers into temporary shelters for migrant children.
Also known as a concentration camp.
Probably still in fine condition right.
Only difference is this time AOC wont be showing up with her fake crying..the commie left is too busy celebrating..open borders, permanent Dem power
Waiting to hear that it will do emotional damage...but no problem....we’ll pay them.
I’m sure Lt. Sulu will have an opinion.
Those illegal aliens will be treated far better than the loyal Japanese Americans who were herded up on short notice and sent to concentration camps in early 1942. I have read that construction on some of those internment camps began before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Thanks to that racist pig FDR.
Sounds like a Good time to demand all the Homeless be put there also.
Who was President after Pearl Harbor?
It wasn’t Trump!
In 1942, months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the detention of Japanese Americans, fearing they would be loyal to the emperor of Japan.
My mom grew up in Oregon, was a teen during WWII. She was always tight lipped when I asked her about the internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII.
Korematsu v. US is not one of the Supreme Court's shining moments.
“Los Angeles County has a responsibility and an opportunity to care for unaccompanied minors coming to the United States”
Like hell they do.
And you can be certain that she wouldn’t say that about Estonian refugees fleeing the Red Army.
But then Solis and her family weren’t IN the United States when our families fought that war to save the planet, and then absorbed REAL refugees (look up UNRRA).
Nope. Only if they’re uniformly Mexican or um, “hispanic”, whatever that is.
And especially if they can be crowned with citizenship and given the right to vote for Hilda, so she can be Queen of the Land the Gringos Built.
the democrats do not know how to do anything but cheat, lie, and go as low as can be.
the reason .... everything they touch is for self... for evil intent...
the way to succeed is to do what you do... the right way and with good intentions...
OMG. This is absolutely PERFECT. hahahahahahahahahahah
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OMG, I think I’m going to die.
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Well, send em back to Japan.
If “our Media” were competent they would have already been drawing comparisons between the overcrowding of border detention facilities and the WW2 internment of Japanese-Americans — both done by Democrat presidents.
I miss Fairplex!
ML/NJ
Benedict Biden is his name. Destroying America is his game!
The democrats love their internment camps, ever since WWII and well, forever?
I suppose this is a dress rehearsal for the rest of us.
Ummm...seems like “bad optics”.
Of course, for it to LOOK bad, people would have to see it and report on it. Without a free press, this won’t happen.
omg the media so covers for their democrat socialist politician comrades.
where are the stories about migrant kids kept in old japanese concentration camps, wheres the obvious negative spin running 24/7 they’d run if ANY republican admin did this?
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