In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

Born to Japanese immigrants in Oakland, he was arrested for refusing to be incarcerated based on his ethnicity.

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

The president said the facility at the U.S. naval base could house as many as 30,000 people ...

The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.

In an effort to curb what they are calling President Donald Trump’s “unbridled executive power,” Sen. Mazie Hirono and Rep.

Santa Cruz's Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who died in December, left behind a legacy of bringing light to a dark period in American history, with her landmark memoir, "Farewell to Manzanar." A ...

Some pundits claim that this idea has proved false because the Democrats have lurched to the left, adopting a platform that ...

President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma ...

Trump picked Leah B. Foley, a longtime federal prosecutor who has investigated money laundering and drug trafficking, to lead ...