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Video: George Takei draws parallels between 1940's Japanese-American internment camps and ICE detentions

Video: George Takei draws parallels between 1940's Japanese-American internment camps and ICE detentions

CNN04-07-2025
"Star Trek" actor and activist George Takei tells CNN's Audie Cornish about his family's experience in a 1940's Japanese-American internment camp, saying Americans "need to speak out" as he sees what is happening with ICE detentions today as "the same thing" as what he experienced.
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