California on Thursday will observe Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution, remembering the shipyard welder who challenged the constitutionality of the incarceration of Japanese ...

A constitutional law professor weighs in on the legal battles sparked by President Donald Trump’s controversial executive ...

With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

Roosevelt’s executive order authorizing the incarceration ... Eventually, most were sent to relocation centers, also known as ...

By Richard Sandomir Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir about living as a child in an internment ... Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which he signed in the aftermath of the Japanese attack ...

Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...

Roosevelt uprooted American citizens of Japanese ancestry and sent them to massive internment camps. Imagine what an angry vengeful administration under Trump can do. Deportation is the least of ...

Immigration detention centers would be banned on state and county lands, and other bills in the Legislature also would ensure ...