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September 22, 2017

Children of Interned Japanese Americans Oppose Trump Travel Ban
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In Washington, D.C., three children of Japanese Americans who were
interned during World War II have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject
the Trump administration's ban on refugees and travelers from six
majority-Muslim nations. Karen Korematsu, Holly Yasui and Jay
Hirabayashi filed an amicus brief Monday arguing the travel ban violates
the Constitution. In 1944, their fathers were litigants in Korematsu v.
United States, an unsuccessful Supreme Court challenge to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese
Americans.