Zócalo Public Square

The possibility that a Donald Trump administration might restrict Muslim immigration and compile a registry of Muslim Americans has raised alarms among ethnic and religious groups, civil libertarians, and others. Ann Burroughs, interim president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum and chair of the board of directors of Amnesty International USA, moderated a Zócalo/UCLA panel, in partnership with the Japanese American National Museum, on how the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II provides a case study of what could happen if a tragic incident were to trigger a federal crackdown against a particular religious or ethnic group. She was joined by Hiroshi Motomura, a scholar of immigration and citizenship law at the UCLA School of Law; Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, a sociocultural anthropologist in UCLA’s Department of Asian American Studies; and Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum.