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Donald Trump's Latest Plan for Housing Undocumented Children Is Drawing Outrage for Its Disturbing History

Donald Trump's Latest Plan for Housing Undocumented Children Is Drawing Outrage for Its Disturbing History
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 18: U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during an event recognizing the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride in the East Room of the White House, April 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Today the Department of Justice released special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report on Russian election interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

History repeats.

President Donald Trump's administration has been grappling with finding holding space for the thousands of undocumented children that Customs and Border Protection is keeping in custody.

As a result, the administration is turning to a new facility: an army base in Oklahoma called Fort Sill. The history of the base, however, has a disturbing history that many see as all too similar to what's happening with undocumented migrants today.


Fort Sill was used as a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II.

The administration will be used as a "temporary emergency influx shelter" as the government figures out a permanent arrangement for the record number of undocumented minors in its care.

Executive Order 9066 was signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in 1942 in response to the escalating war between Japan and the United States. As a result, around 120,000 Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and relocated to internment facilities like Fort Sill.

Indigenous Apache warriors were also imprisoned at Fort Sill. Geronimo, a prominent leader and doctor of the tribe, is buried there.

People are noting the eerie similarities between the purposes of Fort Sill in the past and, now, the present.

Sadly, this isn't the first time that Fort Sill has been used for this purpose. The Obama administration used the facility to house undocumented migrants for four months in 2014, ending after Obama's Health and Human Services Department expanded the availability of suitable shelters.

There has yet to be a timeline for when the children will be moved from Fort Sill.

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