Paul Tomita was incarcerated with his family and 120,000 other Japanese Americans from the west coast as a toddler in 1942. Today he advocates against contemporary group detention of immigrants.
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On Feb 19, 1942 Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an Executive Order authorizing the involuntary evacuation of Japanese American people from the West Coast to relocation centers throughout the country. As a result, most of the US Japanese and Japanese American population, 120,000 people, were forcibly incarcerated.
Paul Tomita was sent to Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho with his family when he was a toddler. Today he advocates against contemporary group detention based on race, nationality or ethnicity. He describes his participation in an action at Fort Sill army post where child detainees were proposed to be held by ICE in 2019.
Last Updated February 18, 2022