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ghouls for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 17 hours ago

"Nestled right in the heart of the nation’s busiest port, where stuff was shipped in from all over the world, was the force tasked with shipping people from all over the world out.

It was there that we were headed, call sign “TI”—Terminal Island.

This was the local ICE HQ"
https://slate.com/business/2025/10/donald-trump-immigration-ice-raids-arrests-la.html

#TerminalIsland #LosAngeles #ICE #uspol #port

Slate Magazine

I Went to Watch the Tiny Operation That’s Making ICE Lose Its Mind. A Lot Can Happen in 24 Hours.

At the headquarters for Donald Trump’s darkest work, a few people are getting under the administration’s skin.
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ghouls for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Reading over a 1985 dissertation by an older Japanese-American person who completed it as a passion project in his early 60s, about his family's and community's experience of maintaining a community after being expelled from where they lives in Terminal Island and incarcerated in Manzanar and it's just so 😭 but also really impressive and touching

#TerminalIsland

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ghouls for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Troops, with jeeps and machine guns, are shown guarding an entrance to Terminal Island on February 3, 1942, to prevent Japanese aliens from leaving the island. Nearly 400 Japanese were seized in the roundup"

(Los Angeles Public Library Herald Examiner Collection, discovered in an open browser tab)

#TerminalIsland #LosAngeles #uspol #immigration

Black and white photo of uniformed men standing around
Black and white photo of uniformed men standing around
Black and white photo of uniformed men standing around
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ghouls for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

"Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and ICE raids today"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/los-angeles-ice-raids-japan-terminal-islands

#EverydayMilitarism #LosAngeles #TerminalIsland #ICE

the Guardian

Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration

Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and Ice raids today
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