•• •• • PC Chronology February 12, 1982 aCl lC Cl· lZel1 (45¢ Postpaid) News 20¢ The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN : 0030-8579 f Whole No. 2,175 f Vol. 94 No. 6 Stand; Immigration raids alarm Uttle tokyo By PEI'ER IMAMURA tight six-block Little Tokyo that 38 were arrested, 27 of LOS ANGELES-Recent large- wnented Japanese and four zone in search of undocum­ them being Japanese. scale arrests of Japanese, Mexican workers. ented aliens, Pursglove said Both Landon and Pursglove Mexican and Latin American Dan Pursglove, supervis­ that INS agents had been noted separately that the ar­ illegal aliens by agents of the ory criminal investigator in working only from informa­ rested aliens have been re­ Immigration and Naturaliza- the Little Tokyo section, said tion givel'l to them and were leased on bonds ranging from tion Service this past week in an interview Feb. 4 that only concerned with specific $3,000 to $5,000. None was be­ ~Feb. 2) in Little Tokyo have these illegal aliens were as­ places as cited on the com- ing held. Two were dismissed alarmed businessmen and certained through complaints plaints. without charges, while sev­ community organizations and filed with INS. Total number of illegal ali­ eral are scheduled for immi­ caused panic among both doc- Agents returned to JVP on ens arrested is uncertain. gration hearings. Those who umented and undocumented Feb. 2 with more information According to Pursglove's flg­ were released on bond had workers here. on illegal aliens working in ures, 34 persons were taken several charges against But INS officials said that several other restaurants as into custody. But INS district them, Pursglove noted. Some the Japanese American com- well as a travel agency and a director Mike Landon, who were visitors who were work­ munity is "overreacting" to gift shop, where, Pursglove called a "unique" press con­ ing illegally; others had over­ the raids. which took place at said, 18 Japanese nationals, ference Feb. 5 in response to stayed their yisas. No charges various restaurants, a travel four Mexicans, one Guatema­ concerns of the Japanese $15,~ MORE, FOR JACCC-So. Calif. Gas Co. grants $15,000 American community, said Contjmpd 00 Back Page for Little .Tokyo S Japanese American Cultural and Community agency and a giftshop. Ian and one Thai were arrest­ Center Six-StOry center building. Pictured (from left) are JACCC The flrst series of arrests ed. leaders Manuellnadomi, Frank Kuwahara, Katsuma Mukaeda came Jan. 27 as INS agents In an attempt to quell rum­ Lawyers plan to oppose INS actions JACCC executive direct!lr Jerry Yoshitomi, Alex Douglas of th~ entered Oomasa Restaurant ors from within the commun­ LOS ANGELES-In response teet itself from sllch INS raids ~as .Co., Les Hamasaki and George Doizaki. Under construc­ in Japanese Village Plaza and . ity that the INS was "sweep­ to the recent Immigration and is through direct political ac­ tion In the background at left is the JACCC 800-seat theater. took into custody eight undoc- ing" and "shotgunning" the Naturalization Service raids tion-lawyers and business in Little Tokyo, several Japa- and community leaders must nese and Asian American at- voice their complaints direct­ FDR 'Tapes' tell more"than a few racial slurs torneys expressed their inten- ly to officials in Washington. NEW YORK-The recent re­ Japan: "There will be no war with a New York woman. man said. It's perfectly true tions to oppose the tactical " It won'tdo much good to deal velation of the "FOR Tapes" with the United States ...on FOR also decided to keep that the Axis Powers-there's "sweeps" of the INS, during a with the INS at the local Ie-. by American Heritage maga­ specjal meeting in Marina Del vel," he said. one condition, and one condi­ military units segregated, in no question about it--they'd Rey Feb. 7. zine lFeb./March issue) dis­ tion only .. .The United States spite of protests by black lead­ give anything in the world to Attorney Fred Fujioka closed a bit more than a few lmust) demilitarize all of its ers. In attempts to quell their have me licked on the fifth of Attorney Dennis M. Mukai, whose office handles many speaking on behalf of both the racial slurs made by Presi­ naval and air and army bases bitterness, he suggested to November. " Pacific Asian American dent Franklin D. Roosevelt in in Wake, Midway and Pearl Navy Secretary Frank Knox Lehman had said durmg the immigration cases, said that Round Table (PAART) and the raids have thrown a scare 1940. The recordings made in Harbor." on Oct. 10, 1940 that "since we Democratic state convention the Japanese American De­ aliens, the Oval Office during his pri­ He reacted, "God! That's are training a certain number a few days earlier, "Nothing into many Japanese and even those who are legal­ mocratic Club said the INS vate conferences revealed the first time that any damn of musicians on board ship­ that could happen in the Unit­ raids are "outrageous ' and ly allowed to work in the U.S. that domestic politics and f~ Jap has told us to get out of the ship's band-there's no ed States could give Hitler, that both PAART and the are afraid to go into Little T~ reign policy were issues Hawaii." reason . .. why we shouldn't Mussolini, Stalin and the gov­ JADe plan to express their which perilously inter­ He added, "The only thing have a colored band on some ernment of Japan more satis­ kyo and other areas where Ja­ opposition to the INS tactics. mingled a problem which has that worries me is that the of these ships, because they're faction than the defeat of the panese are employed. He add­ Leslie Furukawa JACL plagued many presidents in Germans and the Japs have darned good at it ... Look, to man who typifies to the whole ed that as a result, Japanese­ PSWDC legal counsel) said the past. gone along, and the Italians, increase the opportunity, world the kind of free, hu­ owned businesses are being J~A "devastated" since em­ will consider lending Much of the news media's for -oh gosh-flve, six years that's what we're after." mane government which dic­ theIr support, while Heroica ployees aren't showing up for attention was focused on without their foot slipping­ In addition to these candid tators despi.s&-Franklin O. M. Aguiluzsaid thePhilippino some of the comments R0ose­ without their misjudging f()­ but private comments, FOR's Roosevelt. " work, forcing temporary closures. Lawyers Association will also velt made on his secret re­ reign opinion ... And the time conversation with House The New York Times, how­ offer their help. Mukai feels that the only cording device'in regards to may be coming when th.e Ger­ Speaker Sam Rayburn and ever, said in an editorial Oct. way the community can pr<r CoatiDoed on Back Page Japan, his political opponent mans and the Japs will do Floor Leader John W. McCor­ ~, 1940 that Lehman was sug- (Republican presidential can­ some fool thing to put us in. mack on Oct. 4, 1940, disclosed Oycirawd 00 Pap 7 didate Wendell Wilkie} and That's the only real danger of the President's belief that the Cal Japanese Alumni Assn. blacks serving in the armed our getting in-is that their Axis powers attempted to in­ FOR brain-truster forces. foot will slip. " terfere with U.s. politics, a applauded at fete donates $5,000 to redress When learning of Japan's As for his opponent Wilkie move that might ultimately SAN FRANCISCO - George American people of this neg­ entrance into the Axis alli­ Roosevelt had discussed pri­ result in Roosevelt's defeat. WASlDNGTON-Benjamin C0- hen, 87, one of Roosevelt's Kondo of San Francisco, pre- lected ~iod of history in our ance with Germany and Italy, vately with his aides means of "Now this morning ...you sident of the California Japa- textbooks .. : ' Roosevelt commented pri­ spreading the rumor that the know the terrible attack on brain-trusters, was applaud­ ed in the House chambers nese Alurrmi Assn., an- The Association recom­ vately to his aides in the Fall Republican candidate was (New York Gov. Herbert H.) nounced that the Board of mended that the contribution of 1940: having an extramarital affair Lehman because of what Leh- Jan. 28 when Congress com­ memoratedPres. FranklinO. Trustees of the Association be used principally "in your "This country (U .S.) is ... on Jan. 22, unanimously voted continuing efforts towards ready to pull the trigger if the Roosevelt's 100th anniversary Merced Assembly Ctr. to be of his birthday of Jan. 30. to contribute $5,000 to the Na- education as related to those Japs do anything. I mean we tional J ACL Redress Conunit- Wlforgettable years of history won't stand any nonsense, Cohen headed a team of gov­ designated historical landmark ernment lawyers telling the tee, "in recognition of unfal- in the lives of the Japanese public opinion won't ... if they tering dedication to the princi- Americans. do some fool thing." MERCED, Ca.-The former Merced Assembly Center site will Attorney General, the Presi­ be dedicated as a California Hist<?rical Landmark on Friday, dent was justified under his ple of hwnan and ci il rights Responding on behalf of the The tapes also revealed in efforts towards redress for National JACL Redress Com­ Roosevelt, rapping on his Feb. 19,2 p.m. Now the Merced Farrgrounds, it was the home of war powers to evacuate Japa­ 4,669 persons of Japanese ancestry, interned there in 1942 for nese Americans in 1942 "to the unjustiflable acts of our mittee, Chairman Min Yasw desk for emphasis, swn­ government in 1942, and your of Denver noted that "al­ marizing the latest news from four months before being shipped to Amache, Colo.