Here we go again. Though we are a nation of immigrants, we periodically turn xenophobic. Sixty-three years ago, shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led us to declare war on Japan, our government sent more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps--simply because their ancestry made them seem dangerous. In 1988, the Civil Liberties Act--signed by President Ronald Reagan-- apologized for the internment, recognized that it had been prompted by "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership," and authorized reparations that eventually came to more than 1.6 billion dollars. Though we haven't yet started interning any American Muslims, we are back in...
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