From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Emerson Sykes, a staff attorney here at the ACLU and your host.

Today is Korematsu Day, where we honor and celebrate the birthday of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese

American man who, along with hundreds of thousands of others, was sent to a prison camp during World War II.

Korematsu, however, refused to go, and his case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The result of the

case was one of the most notorious decisions of the 20th century.

The Supreme Court ruled that the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, often referred to as Japanese internment, was constitutional because the country was merely protecting its, quote, national security.

Some of the same facilities where Japanese Americans were held

are being used today to incarcerate immigrants. Our guest today is Linda Morris, a fellow with the

ACLU's Women's Rights Project, who's engaging her own family history of Japanese incarceration to

help end immigrant detention across the country. Linda, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

Under the Trump administration, the number of migrants held by the U.S. government has surged.

There are about 200 immigration detention facilities in the U.S. holding over 50,000 immigrants on any given day.

We've all seen this crisis develop, but you decided to do

something about it. Tell us about your work. I am an organizer and a member of the steering

committee for a grassroots group called SiRu for Solidarity. And Suru for Solidarity is a nonviolent

direct action project of Japanese American activists who are working to end detention sites

and to support frontline immigrant and refugee communities that have been targeted by racist and inhumane immigration policies.

And our work at Tsiru for Solidarity is very much grounded in our collective history and moral authority of the survivors

and descendants of these World War II prison camps. We've been working deliberately with communities

who have been targeted by state violence in this country. And we have been using the symbol

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