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Harris’ ad suggests Trump will send Asians back to internment camps
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Harris’ ad suggests Trump will send Asians back to internment camps

The Harris-Walz campaign released a new TV and digital ad calling for internment on Saturday of Japanese Americans during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate, comparing them to former President Donald Trump.

In the 30-second ad, titled “Our America,” the Harris campaign accuses Trump of having an “outdated vision of America” ​​that has “no place” for Asian Americans.

The ad features symbols of American freedom, including the Constitution, allegedly “under attack by Trump and its extremist allies,” the Harris campaign said in a press release.

Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Japanese internment camp

The Harris-Walz campaign on Saturday released a new TV and digital ad calling out the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images, left, Harris-Walz Campaign, center, Amil Krzaczynski/AFP right.)

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The ad “alludes to times when Asian Americans were denied their civil rights — such as the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin in Detroit,” according to the campaign.

“We have a choice between someone who wants unchecked power and has an antiquated vision of America that has no place for us…Or a president who will respect all Americans, who will never consider us ‘other’.” says the narrator.

“Protect our democracy and our communities. Vote”.

The ad features men, women and children of Asian descent, including an alleged Iraq War veteran saluting. The video is appearing on television in the battleground states, as well as on a number of digital channels such as Meta, Snap, YouTube and radio, the Harris-Walz campaign says.

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Kamala Harris from Houston

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Houston on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, sent about 117,000 people of Japanese descent to internment camps, most of whom were American citizens.

Roosevelt issued an executive order on February 19 of that year, coming two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When the internees were taken to the camps, they could only bring what they could carry.

Nine of the camps were closed by the end of 1945 following a Supreme Court decision, and the final camp was closed in March 1946.

Chin, 27, was a Chinese-American cartoonist who was fatally assaulted San Francisco in a racially motivated attack by two white men following a fight at a strip club. Federal authorities said two auto workers blamed Chin for layoffs at auto plants because of Japanese imports.

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After Chin left the club, the two men followed him into a fast-food restaurant and attacked him, authorities said. Chin later died at the hospital.

There was a sharp increase nationwide in anti-Asian hate crimes with the outbreak of the pandemic and the ad tries to link these attacks on Trump with #StopAsianHate posters spread behind a group of children.

Trump in front of the flag

The new ad comes as Vice President Kamala Harris steps up her attacks on former President Donald Trump, calling him “increasingly deranged and unstable” as well as a “fascist” earlier this week. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

“The choice of Asian American voters in this election could not be clearer. While Trump surrounds himself with loyalists to emulate the dictators he admires and intends to wield unchecked power to serve himself, Vice President Kamala Harris has only ever had one client: the people,” said Andrew Peng, the bearer of said Harris-Walz 2024 Asian-American, a native of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, in the release.

The new ad comes as Harris steps up his attacks on the former president, calling him “increasingly disturbed and unstable” as well as a “fascist” last week.