Oklahoma protesters speak against detaining child migrants

 


LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Demonstrators including Japanese Americans who were detained as children by the U.S. government during World War II spoke out Saturday against the Trump administration's plans to house migrant children at an Oklahoma Army base.

At a park near Fort Sill, protesters hung paper cranes that organizers said were folded by people across the country. Speakers decried the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and spoke out against detaining asylum seekers and immigrants.

Hundreds of Japanese and Japanese American people were detained at Fort Sill by the federal gove...



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