Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII
(and, in a companion piece, ibm's role in the Holocaust https://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691.html https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210445880)
Secret use of census info helped send Japanese Americans to internment camps in WWII
Children at the Manzanar internment camp in California in 1943; photo taken by photographer Toyo Miyatake. (National Park Service/AP)
The Census Bureau plans to ask people if they are U.S. citizens in the 2020 count of the nation’s population, igniting fears that the information could be used to target those in the country illegally.
Census officials said the question is being reinstated for the first time since 1950 to help enforce the Voting Rights Act and that there are safeguards in place to prevent any abuse of the information. It is illegal to release information that would identify individuals or families.
But that does not mean that census data has not been used to target specific populations in the past.
In fact, information from the 1940 Census was secretly used in one of the worst violations of constitutional rights in U.S. history: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. In papers presented in 2000 and 2007, historian Margo J. Anderson of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and statistician William Seltzer of Fordham University found evidence that census officials cooperated with the government, providing data to target Japanese Americans.
https://videos.posttv.com/washpost-production/U_S._Office_of_War_Information/20180330/5abe9e90e4b09050267fd692/5abe9e9fe4b05fcebe3f4194_1439412153584-wn5qra_t_1522441898696_640_360_600.mp4
The 1943 film "Japanese Relocation" tried to justify the government's decision to move people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast to internment camps. (U.S. Office of War Information)
The Japanese American community had long suspected the Census Bureau of playing a role in the push to banish 120,000 Japanese Americans, mostly living on the West Coast, into nearly a dozen internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, according to former commerce secretary Norman Mineta. Mineta, who lived in San Jose, was 11 when he and his family were sent to live in an internment camp in Heart Mountain, Wyo.
For decades, though, census officials denied that they had played any role in providing information.
According to Anderson and Seltzer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and military intelligence agencies began pushing in late 1939 to relax census confidentiality rules in the hope of accessing data on individuals. But the effort was opposed by Census Bureau Director William Lane Austin. After the 1940 presidential election, however, Austin was forced to retire. He was replaced by J.C. Capt, who backed efforts to remove confidentiality provisions. Capt’s efforts helped clear the way for other agencies to access the information on Japanese Americans.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/03/secret-use-of-census-info-helped-send-japanese-americans-to-internment-camps-in-wwii/?utm_term=.6fc9c7889b52
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* sew a patch into the outside breast area of their clothing ?
* Tattoo some identifying mark on their inside wrist.... Oh hell this ain't no beauty pageant - slap a tattoo right on the center of their forehead. A right up front and in your face - Scarlet Letter of universal hatred. That way the masses can more easily and readily join in on the hatefest.
Full strength industrial - Fascism.
MAGA !
USA - USA - USA !
face what may well be coming... 
(I think their point was that it was used by a Democrat, but it still seems to me to perfectly illustrate what the concerns are.)
