Please introduce yourself and tell us why you're here.

My name is Satsuki Ina.

I am a third generation Japanese American.

I was a child prisoner in the Crystal City, Texas prison camp during World War II.

My parents, my brother and I were brought here.

from other prison camps in the United States to be illegally deported to Japan.

Illegal because my parents were American citizens and my brother and I were born in the prison camp.

Yeah.

Here are some of the organizers speaking.

So I come here with hope and, um, understanding that pilgrimage is a journey of healing, and also to fully acknowledge the brutality and the trauma that people who were held here had suffered, that we were wrenched from our homes, we were unconstitutionally detained, we were robbed of our belongings.

Many of us were forced to renounce our American citizenship, and we were here gathered.

My father had been separated from us, uh, and we were reunited here, this was a family reunification center, to be deported to Japan.

(laughs)

You know, we need, we need people to humanize the process that's happening now, this harm that is being, uh, perpetrated.

And as a child born in a prison camp, my life has been, uh, tainted by the trauma that my parents suffered holding me in their arms.

And, um, we're, we're damaging children every day while they're held in these prison camps.

People are afraid that, like my mother felt, that maybe today's the day they're gonna line us up and shoot us.So, we need to speak up.

I think it doesn't have to be all the grand, big, national things.

It is even the small actions that create solidarity.

(laughing)

Not allowed.

You know, we need people to humanize the process that's happening now.

This harm that is being perpetrated.

And as a child born in a prison camp, my life has been tainted by the trauma that my parents suffered holding me in their arms.

And We're damaging children every day while they're held in these prison camps.

People are afraid that, like my mother felt, that maybe today's the day they're going to line us up and shoot us.

So we need to speak up.

In your work as a psychotherapist, have you discovered clusters of symptoms common in the multigenerational transmission process? unique to internment camp survivors' children?