Between 1942 and 1944, the United States ran a deportation program that took 1,800 Japanese-Peruvians from their homes across Peru and shipped them to a barbed-wire camp in Crystal City, Texas. Then it classified them as illegal aliens who had attempted to enter the country without visas. The FBI compiled its blacklist from Japanese association membership rolls because no FBI agent in Peru could read Japanese. The community association heads, the school founders, the cooperative directors: arres
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Between 1942 and 1944, the United States ran a deportation program that took 1,800 Japanese-Peruvians from their homes across Peru and shipped them to a barbed-wire camp in Crystal City, Texas. Then it classified them as illegal aliens who had attempted to enter the country without visas. The FBI compiled its blacklist from Japanese association membership rolls because no FBI agent in Peru could read Japanese. The community association heads, the school founders, the cooperative directors: arres
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