Repeating History: Survivors of South Texas’ World War II internment camps see terrifying parallels in Trump’s immigration crackdown

For the first four years of his life, all Hiroshi Shimizu knew was imprisonment. After Pearl Harbor, law enforcement arrested his mother and father because they happened to be of Japanese descent, and he was born a U.S. citizen in a concentration camp in Central Utah. The family bounced from camp to camp, including California’s notorious Tule Lake, before being sent to San Antonio by train, stopping at the domed station west of downtown that now houses VIA’s headquarters.