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Commentary: For-profit immigrant detention centers are an echo of a sad past

Then, as now, overly hyped claims of national security gave rise to our baser communal emotions.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r Japanese-Americans retired Judge Ray Uno, Jeanette Misaka and Jeff E. Itami lived at interment camps. Uno and Misaka lived at Heart Mountain, WY and Itami lived at the Minidoka, ID interment camp. To mark the day Day of Remembrance, February 19, 1942, the day President Roosevelt signed the order requiring Japanese Americans living along the West coast into inland internment camps, two busloads of members of the Japanese American Citizens League traveled from Salt Lake City to Delta, Saturday, February 21, 2015, to tour the Topaz Museum and the site of the former internment camp 16 miles to the northwest outside of Delta.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r Japanese-Americans retired Judge Ray Uno, Jeanette Misaka and Jeff E. Itami lived at interment camps. Uno and Misaka lived at Heart Mountain, WY and Itami lived at the Minidoka, ID interment camp. To mark the day Day of Remembrance, February 19, 1942, the day President Roosevelt signed the order requiring Japanese Americans living along the West coast into inland internment camps, two busloads of members of the Japanese American Citizens League traveled from Salt Lake City to Delta, Saturday, February 21, 2015, to tour the Topaz Museum and the site of the former internment camp 16 miles to the northwest outside of Delta.

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By Shirley Ann Higuchi | For The Tribune