As the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago grows increasingly aggressive, Rebecca Ozaki sees disturbing parallels to her own family’s detention in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II.

Within a month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, FBI agents came to her teenaged grandfather’s home in California and began questioning the entire household. His father was taken away, first to the Los Angeles County jail and then to a Department of Justice camp in New Mexico, where he became one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans estimated to have been unjustly incarcerated around the country during that time.

Now Ozaki fears history is repeating itself as turbulent immigration raids, mass detentions and a climate of fear plague much of the Chicago area.

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