Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/los-angeles-ice-raids-japan-terminal-islands

Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration

Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and Ice raids today

Claire Wang in Los Angeles
Wed 16 Jul 2025 11.00 EDT

John Tonai was enraged when he learned that a human-made island in San Pedro Bay was being used as a staging ground for the workplace raids unfolding across Los Angeles.

To Tonai, Terminal Island isn’t just one of the country’s busiest container ports. It’s the site of a small fishing village where his parents and thousands of other Japanese immigrants helped establish California’s tuna-canning industry.

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“There’s a particular nerve for me that’s struck in them using Terminal Island in this way,” said Maya Suzuki Daniels, a San Pedro high school teacher whose parents were incarcerated at a camp in Arizona. “At some point, I’d like our country to be known for something other than mass incarceration.”

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