George Takei compares his own internment to the Trump administration’s policy of separating children of immigrants from their parents: 'That is deliberate, conscious evil'
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is a neighbor of mine,” Takei says. “He lives about five blocks away from me and said he wanted to come over and talk to me about something. So he came over and told me about this project that he’s working on.”The second season of “The Terror,” which premieres Aug. 12, is set during World War II in an internment camp for Japanese Americans. Takei, who plays a fisherman who’s being held, lived through the internment as a small child along with his family.
And while thousands of Japanese Americans went on to serve in the segregated 442nd Infantry Regiment of the Army — still the most decorated unit in U.S. military history — many refused to serve unless they and their families were freed from the camps.“This was a gutsy, principled, American stance,” Takei says. “For this, they were tried for draft evasion, found guilty and sent to Leavenworth federal penitentiary. They are just as heroic as those who fought on foreign battlefields.
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