There's so much. The intro starts with the early 2000s, when it was written. These camps were referenced after 9/11. Bush & Co  wanted to round up up Arabs and others they deemed disloyal. I had almost thought i was remembering this wrong the way people describe it now (they are SURE they and all journalists opposed war and protested vigorously early on - that wasn't exactly so... until later...). They've forgotten the vengeance of the population and complicity around war, the hatred against Muslims and anyone they thought looked Arab. 

I didn't realize that Japanese Americans tended to downplay their imprisonment because it wasn't extermination camps in Europe - a familiar thing we do with trauma.

One reason why we need to remember:

"Thus, while concentration camps and new prisoners of the home front may seem an impossibility today, especially in light of the end of the Cold War and the elimination of the Communist menace, the danger of a repeat of the Second World War Japanese American experience remains. The fluid transfer of guilt by association from a racial to an ideological group in the 1950's suggests the readiness of Americans to find new enemies in times of perceived emergency. Given this predisposition, the repeal of Title II in 1971 and the caveat placed in Section 4001 of Title 18 of the United States Code are but poor protection should a new and serious threat to internal security, either real of imagined, arise in the future."

You'd think after this, if we cared anything for the values we claim, we'd have shored this up and made it impossible. But we have not.