[hypothesis]

> tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador

Why would he do that? Manzanar is much closer and successfully tested even against citizens.

I’ve heard that interned Japanese-American did not like to bring the whole thing up afterwards, but it was clearly a mistake trying to memory hole that abomination.

[lazide]

For PR outrage/attention, just like most of the things he does and says.

If you keep trying to apply normal rational expectations to the current administration, you’ll always be ‘surprised’ at what they actually do.