By REP. MARK TAKANO

My parents know what it means to be treated as an enemy by their own country. They and my grandparents were among the more than 125,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

They were forced from their homes and their land, stripped of their possessions, gave up the lives they built over decades in this country. Without a trial or charges they were herded into prison camps for the duration of the war. Though they were American citizens by birth, their rights were overridden by the stroke of a pen in Washington.

That experience shaped my family forever. They were forced to understand that our rights are only as secure as our willingness and ability to defend them. Today, I see echoes of that injustice unfolding again.

In the Florida Everglades, at an o

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