JACL Statement on Day of Remembrance

February 19, 2021 David Inoue, Executive Director dinoue@jacl.org, 202-607-7273 Sarah Baker, VP Public Affairs sbaker@jacl.org Today marks the 79th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 which paved the way for the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the United States. Based on…