"As soon as we started patrolling, we realized that the Port of LA played an important role in the raids... [CBP is using] a gated federal facility on Terminal Island that holds a penitentiary, a Coast Guard base and an old immigration processing center..."
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/07/what-i-learned-patrolling-for-ice-in-terminal-island/
"Nestled right in the heart of the nation’s busiest port, where stuff was shipped in from all over the world, was the force tasked with shipping people from all over the world out.
It was there that we were headed, call sign “TI”—Terminal Island.
This was the local ICE HQ"
https://slate.com/business/2025/10/donald-trump-immigration-ice-raids-arrests-la.html
Reading over a 1985 dissertation by an older Japanese-American person who completed it as a passion project in his early 60s, about his family's and community's experience of maintaining a community after being expelled from where they lives in Terminal Island and incarcerated in Manzanar and it's just so 😭 but also really impressive and touching
"Troops, with jeeps and machine guns, are shown guarding an entrance to Terminal Island on February 3, 1942, to prevent Japanese aliens from leaving the island. Nearly 400 Japanese were seized in the roundup"
(Los Angeles Public Library Herald Examiner Collection, discovered in an open browser tab)
"Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and ICE raids today"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/los-angeles-ice-raids-japan-terminal-islands
CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025
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-VIDEO: Immigration Enforcement Use of Terminal Island Press Conference https://
youtu.be/VKEzez8PSxo?si=h9YBWpcyvFR6niax
#AbolishICE #LosAngeles #TerminalIsland #JapaneseAmerican #SanPedro #California #InternmentCamps
CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025
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JA and Local Community Leaders Condemn ICE Staging on Terminal Island
https://rafu.com/2025/07/ja-and-local-community-leaders-condemn-ice-staging-on-terminal-island/
#AbolishICE #LosAngeles #TerminalIsland #JapaneseAmerican #SanPedro #California #InternmentCamps
By J.K. YAMAMOTORAFU SHIMPO Japanese Americans and residents of the Los Angeles Harbor area gathered June 27 at the Japanese Fishing Village Memorial on Terminal Island to denounce use of the island by federal immigration authorities participating in mass raids on local communities. The memorial, dedicated in 2002, commemorates Terminal Island’s once-thriving Japanese American community, […]
"Tuna Street was the main business thoroughfare and home to the two remaining buildings: the dry goods store Nanka Shoten (1918) and the grocery A. Nakamura Co. (1923). The destruction of the village began immediately following its residents’ removal in 1942, and over the years more structures were razed as the island grew into an industrial and commercial port" +
From an LA Times story about #TerminalIsland, infilled land in the #port area with a rich history:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-07/terminal-islands-tuna-street-buildings-placed-on-2025-list-of-americas-11-most-endangered-historic-places
The National Trust for Historic Preservation aims to save from destruction the last two surviving structures from Terminal Island's pre-World War II days as a Japanese American fishing village.
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