In the last two weeks, President Trump has demanded that minority members of Congress go back to where they came from or criticized their districts as rat-infested hellholes.
It’s a refrain that’s all too familiar to Japanese Americans who remember how they and their families were treated before, during and after World War II.
The one organization that championed our rights at the time was the Japanese American Citizens League, which celebrates its 90th anniversary with its annual convention this week at the Little America in Salt Lake City, Utah.
JACL brought together people to help combat the hatred stirred up against Japanese immigrants and their families living in the United States.