バイデン氏、日系人収容「恥ずべきこと」　米大統領令から８２年

　【ワシントン時事】バイデン米大統領は１９日、第２次世界大戦中に行われた日系人１２万人以上の強制収容について、「恥ずべきことだ」とする声明を発表した。１９４２年のこの日、ルーズベルト大統領（当時）が強制収容に関する大統領令に署名した。
　バイデン氏は強制収容された半数が子供だったと指摘。「家族は離れ離れになり、コミュニティーは引き裂かれ、人々は尊厳を奪われた」とし、「二度と起こさない」と誓った。（2024/02/19-23:32）

The incarceration of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II was "shameful," U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement released on Monday, exactly 82 years after then U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the incarceration.
   Noting that half of the incarcerated Japanese Americans were children, Biden said: "Families were separated. Communities were torn apart. People were stripped of their dignity."
   "Let it not happen again," the president said.
    Apparently bearing in mind Donald Trump, who is leading the Republican nomination race in the November presidential election and has called for tougher action against a surge of immigrants, Biden noted in the statement that he will "confront racism, xenophobia and hate in all its forms" and will strengthen and preserve the United States' democracy.