Within days of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the FBI over 100 Japanese men The Imperial Valley has undergone a series of large-scale sweeps that have separated families from health care providers. In the weeks that follow, a wave of terror will sweep through our country, with federal, state and local authorities taking panicked political action against local Japanese men, women and children. Six months later, all Japanese residents of the Imperial Valley, including farmers, business owners, ministers, and early settlers, ordered to evacuate Take only what you can carry.Everything will eventually be transported by bus Indian Reservation in the Arizona Desert. Driven by panic and fear, America will also not offer economic protection to those who are suddenly forced to abandon everything they have worked for in pursuit of the American Dream. This was not an “evacuation”.shake your head and wave your handsThis was the mass deportation and imprisonment of Japanese families in the Imperial Valley. This tragedy, which revealed the complicity of the virus and the real consequences of failed leadership, both moral and political, in our country, should be remembered forever.

Pre-war almost Two-thirds of Japanese Americans on the West Coast worked in agriculture and came closer 40% of all California vegetablesinclude Nearly 100% of tomatoes, celery, strawberries and peppers. Of the Japanese in our Valley, almost three-quarters of him worked and farmed. tens of thousands of acrescompleted the melon industryAs a result, Succeeded in cultivating head lettuce for the first time Leading the United States on a commercial basis in lettuce production.

World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor would change everything for our valley and the Japanese who helped build it.

Less than two years before President Franklin Delano Roosevelt forcibly relocated more than 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans, February 19, 1942more than 600 Imperial Valley Japanese Americans stood before the Imperial County Board of Supervisors, pledge their allegiance to America. Elsewhere in the valley, draft political party Hosted by the Japanese Volunteer Club, it was held to say goodbye to a local Japanese man enlisting in the US military. Dinner for local officials To further prove our loyalty to America. Despite these positive efforts, when the war began, everything was blatantly ignored by the fear-blinded populace.

Whether referred to as “” by federal officialsenemy raceor legislators justifying their placement ininland concentration camps‘, and similar sentiments toward the Japanese echoed at the local level. County Sheriff Robert W. Ware warned residents:If you see a Japanese person, report it.” to the authorities. Our Agriculture Department also passed unanimously. Resolution I appealed to Governor Earl Warren to do whatever it takes to keep them out of California.

[1945年に戦争が終わった後も、かつて根強く残っていたインペリアルバレーの日本人家族は、ペルソナ・ノン・グラータ 郡の境界内。 郡監督官のBM・グラハムとブローリー市長のエルマー・シアーズが大規模な政策を主導することになる。 ブローリーラリー 大統領と知事に対し、日本人をインペリアルバレーから締め出すよう呼びかけた。 CG・ハリデー地方検事は、日本の土地所有権の阻止も「問題」とするだろう。主な任務彼のオフィスの」。 日本人家族の強制送還中も同じ熱意が、帰国という考えだけで維持された。

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不当に追放され、歓迎されず帰還したグループは、もはや故郷ではない場所や、それを粘り強く許可した人々とは何の関わりも望んでいなかったため、戻ってくる人がほとんどいないことは驚くべきことではありません。 10年以内に、アメリカ人の民族全体がインペリアル・バレーから完全かつ強制的に消滅した。

アジア系アメリカ人および太平洋諸島民遺産月間の終わりが近づくにつれ、私たちは、インペリアル・バレーの日本人家族、つまり私たちの元の開拓者たちに対して犯された不当行為、そして私たちのバレーと、ほぼ一世紀後も続く農業産業を形作った彼らの貢献を認めなければなりません。