Japanese American Citizens League Rebukes Arizona Legislator's Comparisons of COVID-19 Quarantine to Japanese American Experience
May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The Japanese American Citizens League issued the following news release:
In a May 18 hearing before the Arizona House Rules Committee, Chairman Anthony Kern took the stand-alone bill to honor civil rights advocate, Fred Korematsu (SB 1352), and moved it into a legislative package titled, "COVID-19 Enforcement, Action and Liability." In his explanation, Mr. Kern equated the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and the struggles of Fred Korematsu . . .
In a May 18 hearing before the Arizona House Rules Committee, Chairman Anthony Kern took the stand-alone bill to honor civil rights advocate, Fred Korematsu (SB 1352), and moved it into a legislative package titled, "COVID-19 Enforcement, Action and Liability." In his explanation, Mr. Kern equated the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and the struggles of Fred Korematsu . . .