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Utah senator Lee blocks historic designation for Japanese American internment camp in Colorado

Japanese Americans “have quietly contributed to our country and it’s unfortunate they can’t be supported by someone from their own state,” said Shirley Ann Higuchi, whose parents were interned in Wyoming.

(Russell Contreras | The Associated Press) A sign stands at the entrance to Camp Amache, on Jan. 18, 2015, the site of a former World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp, in Granada, Colo. On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans at the onset of World war II, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting backlash for holding up the creation of a national historic site at the former internment camp in southeast Colorado.

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